Ah, those French...
To recap my earlier assertion...
Cunt wrote:
Ghatanothoa wrote:
Where did he find it? Greenland is my guess, that's where most of the really old stuff is.
Since you are so smart, I am really pleased you guessed wrong. It was found on an island in the Acasta River, Northwest Territories, Canada.
It's so fucking far north it's even north of HERE!
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I know I am still 'believing', but I saw a film which detailed this find, shook the man's hand who made this find (with his team) and looked it up on the interwebz.
Admittedly, not a very thorough researching on my part.
Can anyone here direct me to relevant published papers which might be reviewed by competent geologists?
This 'Svartalf' chap has me doubting myself...
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Cunt wrote:Ah, those French...
To recap my earlier assertion...
Cunt wrote:
Ghatanothoa wrote:
Where did he find it? Greenland is my guess, that's where most of the really old stuff is.
Since you are so smart, I am really pleased you guessed wrong. It was found on an island in the Acasta River, Northwest Territories, Canada.
It's so fucking far north it's even north of HERE!
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I know I am still 'believing', but I saw a film which detailed this find, shook the man's hand who made this find (with his team) and looked it up on the interwebz.
Admittedly, not a very thorough researching on my part.
Can anyone here direct me to relevant published papers which might be reviewed by competent geologists?
Faithfree wrote:http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/GC ... /3966/4480
Here is a refereed paper on the age of the Acasta Gneiss Complex (PDF format). But it's 12 years old, so there may be more recent discoveries I'm not aware of.
I have seen recent mention of old rocks found on an expedition to Greenland. Something like their seventh year going there before they found the good stuff.
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Faithfree wrote:And next to me now I have an even older rock, but it's not from earth - as an iron meteorite I'm assuming about 4.55 billion like the rest, but will admit this actual specimen hasn't been dated.
The COOLEST fucking people are here! Can you show us a photo of it?
Ok, here it is on the keyboard for scale.
It's a piece of the Henbury meteorite. The Henbury site is a series of 13 or more craters in central Australia that were originally surrounded by large numbers of iron meteorite fragments, now in museums and other collections around the world. This bit was collected way back in the early days well before the site became a protected reserve. Impact about 4000 years ago and apparently recorded in local aboriginal legends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henbury_Me ... on_Reserve
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Faithfree wrote:And next to me now I have an even older rock, but it's not from earth - as an iron meteorite I'm assuming about 4.55 billion like the rest, but will admit this actual specimen hasn't been dated.
The COOLEST fucking people are here! Can you show us a photo of it?
Ok, here it is on the keyboard for scale.
It's a piece of the Henbury meteorite. The Henbury site is a series of 13 or more craters in central Australia that were originally surrounded by large numbers of iron meteorite fragments, now in museums and other collections around the world. This bit was collected way back in the early days well before the site became a protected reserve. Impact about 4000 years ago and apparently recorded in local aboriginal legends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henbury_Me ... on_Reserve
Geez...I haven't even HELD anything from another planet (that I know of). Faithfree, you have it pretty fucking good. I hope you know it!
Thanks for the photo. I haven't got acrobat installed, but will check out the link to the paper a bit later. Somewhat frustrating that it still doesn't give me a firm answer, but I should have expected it, considering the nature of the question.
Mark just e-mailed me back, I will get back to you all with an update about availability when I can.
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Faithfree wrote:And next to me now I have an even older rock, but it's not from earth - as an iron meteorite I'm assuming about 4.55 billion like the rest, but will admit this actual specimen hasn't been dated.
The COOLEST fucking people are here! Can you show us a photo of it?
Ok, here it is on the keyboard for scale.
It's a piece of the Henbury meteorite. The Henbury site is a series of 13 or more craters in central Australia that were originally surrounded by large numbers of iron meteorite fragments, now in museums and other collections around the world. This bit was collected way back in the early days well before the site became a protected reserve. Impact about 4000 years ago and apparently recorded in local aboriginal legends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henbury_Me ... on_Reserve
I'd kill for one of those.
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Faithfree wrote:And next to me now I have an even older rock, but it's not from earth - as an iron meteorite I'm assuming about 4.55 billion like the rest, but will admit this actual specimen hasn't been dated.
The COOLEST fucking people are here! Can you show us a photo of it?
Ok, here it is on the keyboard for scale.
It's a piece of the Henbury meteorite. The Henbury site is a series of 13 or more craters in central Australia that were originally surrounded by large numbers of iron meteorite fragments, now in museums and other collections around the world. This bit was collected way back in the early days well before the site became a protected reserve. Impact about 4000 years ago and apparently recorded in local aboriginal legends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henbury_Me ... on_Reserve
I'd kill for one of those.
Don't give Pappa one! He would only beat it on his anvil...
I didn't know so many people on here had large meteor samples. That is really cool!
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