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Award-winning writer Christopher Cokinos will talk about his experiences as a meteorite hunter in the polar regions when he visits the University of Wyoming Monday, Oct. 22.
His free lecture, "The Fallen Sky: A Private History of Shooting Stars," will take place at 7 p.m. in the UW Art Museum. Cokinos will answer questions and sign books during the following reception.


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The University of Kansas Natural History Museum is calling all amateur rock hounds, fossil hunters and meteorite enthusiasts for an identification day event on Sunday, Oct. 21.
"What on Earth? Rocks, Fossils and Meteorites" will give visitors the opportunity to bring items from their home collections to KU experts for identification. While visitors are there, they will have the chance to see examples of Kansas fossils, learn about Kansas geology and learn how to identify a meteorite.

Date: October 21, 2007
Time: 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Natural History Museum, Dyche Hall
Contact: 785-864-2344

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For art collectors, the latest must-have objects are, quite literally, falling from the sky.
Boldface names like Steven Spielberg and Yo-Yo Ma are buying meteorites from auction houses at prices that are out of this world.
On Oct. 28 in New York, Bonhams auctioneers will hold their first-ever sale devoted exclusively to meteorites, and prices are expected to climb well past the seven-figure mark.

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Bonhams Sale 15648 - Historic Meteorites and Related Americana
New York, 28 Oct 2007

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Four hundred new meteorites have been found in Oman, scientists have announced. The discoveries were made by a joint Oman-Swiss team that was on a quest for meteorites in the Sultanate.

"The team has listed a total of 400 finds" - Dr Ali bin Faraj Al Katheri, geologist at the Minerals Department of the Directorate-General of Commerce and Industry in Dhofar Governorate

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It's been tossed in cupboards, drawers, sat on book shelves and been lost for months on end.
But no more.
For this is no ordinary rock.
It's a meteorite - no question about it, a geologist told its owner this week.
Te Rino Rapana, a shearer, of Ratana, said yesterday he wondered whether his rock was a meteorite a few years ago when it had shown up again after being lost for a while.

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Scientists are planning a mission to drill beneath the Moon's surface for buried meteorites that may hold clues to how life began on Earth.
British space experts are to reveal plans next month to send robotic drills to the Moon to collect cores of lunar rock.
They believe that beneath the Moon's dust-covered surface they will find the remains of meteorites that date back to the early history of the earth.

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Patrick Herman owns one of the oldest, rarest collections on earth. It dates 4.5 billion years. It's harder to find than diamonds. Its contents are out of this world. Literally.
Herman father, consultant, traveller, prospector moonlights as a meteorite hunter.

"Some Bedouin riding on a camel is a cliché at this point, but he sees a black rock in the sand, gets off his camel and picks it up...It's the oldest material that anyone of us will probably ever be able to hold in our hand I get goosebumps just thinking about it" - Patrick Herman

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The golf-ball-size chunk is among the oldest rocks you will ever see.

At 4.5 billion years old, it's part of a larger rock that spent years swirling in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
An impact with another asteroid tossed the chunk into an orbit that crossed the Earth's path. It eventually fell through the atmosphere and broke up above a Chicago suburb. One lump hit a firehouse near midnight March 26, 2003. Other pieces ploughed into homes, with one landing near a sleeping 14-year-old boy.
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