Fossil Meteorites
In which we set out and find fossil meteorites in time and space. Wait... meteorites can be fossilized?! Mind blown. Read more about Philipp Heck's meteoritical research and the arrival of...
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- Hey! I'm here with Philipp Heck who you guys will probably remember from the Starstuff and Nanodiamonds episode. Today we're going to talk about this fossilized meteorite, but before then, what is this machine? - This is a scanning electron microscope. This allows us to get super high resolution images of any kinds of solid samples, like meteorites, and also determine their chemical compositions. - That's great! We're going to sample one of these meteorites. Not this one. A different one. - These were found, or excavated—extracted— from a rock quarry in Sweden. When did that happen? - So these meteorites, the first one was found in 1952, but hadn't been recognized as a meteorite until about 30 years later. - These are really rar...
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- Hey! I'm here with Philipp Heck who you guys will probably remember from the Starstuff and Nanodiamonds episode. Today we're going to talk about this fossilized meteorite, but before then, what is this machine? - This is a scanning electron microscope. This allows us to get super high resolution images of any kinds of solid samples, like meteorites, and also determine their chemical compositions. - That's great! We're going to sample one of these meteorites. Not this one. A different one. - These were found, or excavated—extracted— from a rock quarry in Sweden. When did that happen? - So these meteorites, the first one was found in 1952, but hadn't been recognized as a meteorite until about 30 years later. - These are really rar...
