I always get focused in when Marissa shows off her rocks. She presents them well and the ones she shows are always interesting to me. Thanks ya'll. 🖤🖤🖤
P.S. Really love your videos - well done! I just wish you would linger a few secons on the cover photos where you have the meteorites lined up with their names. It is nigh on impossible to freeze frame them fast enough to screenshot so I can study them. Otherwise perfection Plus it's fun and greatly appreciated! 😁👍
I am glad to hear that you enjoy the videos enough to care about what each sample is named. I do try to leave the name of the meteorite on screen long enough for anyone to take note of. Also, the chapters are usually identified with the name of the meteorite. In addition to that I usually have in the description of the video a list of all the meteorites shown. I hope this helps. Please continue to watch and let me know what you'd like to learn more about.
Question about Scott’s lunar with vesicles. First off, it’s 100% heard that a specimen with vesicles is not going to be a meteorite; that said, how was his lunar piece discovered then ? How was it found? What made it worthy of investigation? Just curious. Thanks for sharing!!
Good question. What happens most the time is these rocks are found in the African Sahara desert. They are collected and brought back to the cities where they are passed up the food chain to someone more knowledgeable. They used to only collect magnetic rocks. Now they're collecting weird looking non-magnetic rocks. A lot of achondrites are being identified this way.
QUESTION re (at 18:35) "If it has vesicles, it almost certainly is not a meteorite." I get that testing is key, but how does science safeguard against creating a self-fulfilling prophesy in its not testing suspects with vesicles? I mean, if a rock had vesicles - but *also* fusion crust, flow lines, eddies, impacts with melt features, heat cracks, blow-over, and an exterior that's a different color than the interior - should these be enough to warrant testing? I ask, not to be contrary, but because there are vesicles in meteorites at the museum, and also in quite a number of the larger pieces I picked up (with permissions), having gridlined out a secure, freshly painted surface after a meteor explosion. I was expecting only microscopic melt splatter, and initially stowed larger pieces aside as possible contamination. However, under 30-80x some of the bits that are broken, show themselves to be made of a variety of crystals - many are beautiful opalescents, with a clear layer of melted glass over them. Soooo... What does it take for people without PhDs to earn access past the basic, often really rude gatekeeper TAs (who go strictly by the "no vesicles" rule and look no further) in order to reach a real professor who could advise on this and similar, science-driven projects? With mine, it's complicated because I was hoping to send the glassy melt splatter off to a number of places far away, but because they are so tiny and tend to "jump" due to static, they need to be shipped in German micropaleontology slides with medium-sized wells and a tightly fitting lid. These things are a lot of money. I am disabled, and while I *do* have the required funds, with the kinds of run-ins I've had, anybody would begin to doubt their understandings of the research that informed their project - and with that doubt, hesitate on spending so much. Was hoping, since the larger pieces are viewable under a cellphone macro-lense instead of a scanning electron microscope, that I could get some kind of confirmation that these little bits are worthy of those researchers' time - and my spending all that to send.
If a sample is found in a meteorite-rich environment like the Saharan or Chilean desert and it has obvious signs of meteorite features on the outside that you mentioned, rollover lip fusion crust flow lines etc, whether it has vesicles or not may not even be found out until the sample gets back home and cut. All of the other confirmed meteoritic features will not be discarded if fessicles are found.. Every institution that has anything to do with meteoritics is bombarded with requests for people to send their samples in. 99.999% of the time they are terrestrial samples. That being said, the academic institutes and their scientific equipment cannot be wasted on low quality targets. My Crew and I serve a purpose to weed out bad samples and make sure only good samples get to the labs and scientists and tools. If you'd like my crew to give you our opinion on what you have, it only cost $25 and a video. Go to patreon.com search my company name and join as a rockhounder. I guarantee you will not get any attitude or be treated dismissively.
I have found a palliside loads of that green oviline and if you think that something then you will be blown away. I am trying to get authenticated but seem to be getting no where. Waiting on the impact specialist at UGA . Any suggestions?😊
If you go to Patreon.com and search my company, you will find a way to sign up as a $25 a month Rockhound Supporter. That will allow you to submit one three minute video sample per month for our expert crew to give you our opinion on. We will either rule it out or tell you yes it's worth spending more money and time getting in touch with scientists. We could even help during that process if it passes our tests.
@@TopherspinMeteorites Thanks but I haven't found a test it can't pass. It 's looking like it will be the 68th ever found. Working with UGA. Fusion crust with shock veins, slaggish looking,metallic rainbow, dark green oviline black blue purple plum rose. It feels like a dream.
Good luck. I've never heard of the UGA being involved in any meteorite classifications. BTW: There are 145 non-Antarctic Pallasites published on the MetBull already.
I have found microscopic enscription on my pallisite. This is not a hoax!!!!! How can I contact you directly. It is very very difficult to get any bodies attention. Will send proof!!! We are not alone!!!!!!Please respond!!Thank you.
Very interesting. We would be glad to look at it if you submitted as a Patreon rock hounder submission of the month.. That membership only cost $25 a month. www.patreon.com/topherspin
I always get focused in when Marissa shows off her rocks. She presents them well and the ones she shows are always interesting to me. Thanks ya'll. 🖤🖤🖤
Couldn't agree more! I love the fact that she can do show and tell better than some crew members with full ability.
P.S. Really love your videos - well done! I just wish you would linger a few secons on the cover photos where you have the meteorites lined up with their names. It is nigh on impossible to freeze frame them fast enough to screenshot so I can study them. Otherwise perfection
Plus it's fun
and greatly appreciated!
😁👍
I am glad to hear that you enjoy the videos enough to care about what each sample is named. I do try to leave the name of the meteorite on screen long enough for anyone to take note of. Also, the chapters are usually identified with the name of the meteorite. In addition to that I usually have in the description of the video a list of all the meteorites shown. I hope this helps. Please continue to watch and let me know what you'd like to learn more about.
Question about Scott’s lunar with vesicles. First off, it’s 100% heard that a specimen with vesicles is not going to be a meteorite; that said, how was his lunar piece discovered then ? How was it found? What made it worthy of investigation? Just curious.
Thanks for sharing!!
Good question. What happens most the time is these rocks are found in the African Sahara desert. They are collected and brought back to the cities where they are passed up the food chain to someone more knowledgeable.
They used to only collect magnetic rocks. Now they're collecting weird looking non-magnetic rocks. A lot of achondrites are being identified this way.
QUESTION re (at 18:35) "If it has vesicles, it almost certainly is not a meteorite." I get that testing is key, but how does science safeguard against creating a self-fulfilling prophesy in its not testing suspects with vesicles?
I mean, if a rock had vesicles - but *also* fusion crust, flow lines, eddies, impacts with melt features, heat cracks, blow-over, and an exterior that's a different color than the interior - should these be enough to warrant testing?
I ask, not to be contrary, but because there are vesicles in meteorites at the museum, and also in quite a number of the larger pieces I picked up (with permissions), having gridlined out a secure, freshly painted surface after a meteor explosion. I was expecting only microscopic melt splatter, and initially stowed larger pieces aside as possible contamination. However, under 30-80x some of the bits that are broken, show themselves to be made of a variety of crystals - many are beautiful opalescents, with a clear layer of melted glass over them.
Soooo... What does it take for people without PhDs to earn access past the basic, often really rude gatekeeper TAs (who go strictly by the "no vesicles" rule and look no further) in order to reach a real professor who could advise on this and similar, science-driven projects?
With mine, it's complicated because I was hoping to send the glassy melt splatter off to a number of places far away, but because they are so tiny and tend to "jump" due to static, they need to be shipped in German micropaleontology slides with medium-sized wells and a tightly fitting lid. These things are a lot of money. I am disabled, and while I *do* have the required funds, with the kinds of run-ins I've had, anybody would begin to doubt their understandings of the research that informed their project - and with that doubt, hesitate on spending so much. Was hoping, since the larger pieces are viewable under a cellphone macro-lense instead of a scanning electron microscope, that I could get some kind of confirmation that these little bits are worthy of those researchers' time - and my spending all that to send.
If a sample is found in a meteorite-rich environment like the Saharan or Chilean desert and it has obvious signs of meteorite features on the outside that you mentioned, rollover lip fusion crust flow lines etc, whether it has vesicles or not may not even be found out until the sample gets back home and cut. All of the other confirmed meteoritic features will not be discarded if fessicles are found..
Every institution that has anything to do with meteoritics is bombarded with requests for people to send their samples in. 99.999% of the time they are terrestrial samples. That being said, the academic institutes and their scientific equipment cannot be wasted on low quality targets. My Crew and I serve a purpose to weed out bad samples and make sure only good samples get to the labs and scientists and tools.
If you'd like my crew to give you our opinion on what you have, it only cost $25 and a video. Go to patreon.com search my company name and join as a rockhounder. I guarantee you will not get any attitude or be treated dismissively.
Доброе утро, всем счастья, классные лунные метеориты 👍
Thanks so much for your encouragement and kind words. We are very happy to have our international friends like yourself join us.
Wwwooowww 😊😮
Thanks for watching
Very nice!
Thank you! Cheers!
Lol. My tip is bent.😊 greart show and in sync. ❤❤❤❤
You got me! Thanks for the sync check ✅
FIRE VIDEO LIKE ALWAYS
Thanks a bunch
I have found a palliside loads of that green oviline and if you think that something then you will be blown away. I am trying to get authenticated but seem to be getting no where. Waiting on the impact specialist at UGA . Any suggestions?😊
If you go to Patreon.com and search my company, you will find a way to sign up as a $25 a month Rockhound Supporter.
That will allow you to submit one three minute video sample per month for our expert crew to give you our opinion on. We will either rule it out or tell you yes it's worth spending more money and time getting in touch with scientists. We could even help during that process if it passes our tests.
@@TopherspinMeteorites Thanks but I haven't found a test it can't pass. It 's looking like it will be the 68th ever found. Working with UGA. Fusion crust with shock veins, slaggish looking,metallic rainbow, dark green oviline black blue purple plum rose. It feels like a dream.
Good luck. I've never heard of the UGA being involved in any meteorite classifications. BTW: There are 145 non-Antarctic Pallasites published on the MetBull already.
@@TopherspinMeteorites I need to contact info to send you. I promise it's unbelievable.
I have found encryption on this pallisite.Its microscopic! I need your contact info andI will prove we are not alone!!This is not a hoax!!!!
Own a meteorite that NASA does not own. The meteorite is published on the page😊😊😊
I do not understand what you are trying to say.
I have found microscopic enscription on my pallisite. This is not a hoax!!!!! How can I contact you directly. It is very very difficult to get any bodies attention. Will send proof!!! We are not alone!!!!!!Please respond!!Thank you.
Very interesting. We would be glad to look at it if you submitted as a Patreon rock hounder submission of the month..
That membership only cost $25 a month. www.patreon.com/topherspin
Thank you!
How much did you pay for it
For what?
I have stone like that but i dont know if it is a meteorite can u help me pls
www.patreon.com/topherspin
It requires a $25/month membership.
Im from phillipines sir and i cant afford the 25 dollar but i u like i will gave sample for free
Please enjoy the channel for free.
I have 9 kilos meteorite collection please help me look for the right buyer
Thanks in advance
That's not what this channel or video is for.