OK, here is the joke:

You have seen coprolites before? Like, when they were fresh?

OK, now hit me with a meteorite…

As a beginner meteorite collector, I’d love to see a write-up of the ones you have. I’ve got a few smallish Sikhote’s (including one with a nice hole), a golfball-sized Campo, a chunk of Brenham pallasite, and a really nice NWA 869. I even made my girlfriend a necklace using a heart-shaped 869 with peridot stones around it.

Also, I have a coprolite on my desk at work. My boss and I got into a discussion about young-earth creationists (we’re both on the same side of the issue) and I told him that I have a piece of poo older than their earth!

Ah, coprolite, the only piece o’ poo that hurts when you hit someone with it.

How about “blue ice” when it falls from an airliner?

I just clicked on the photo of the Meteorite and read the article on the News Daily site and I have to say, that’s the biggest Fukang Meteorite I’ve ever seen!

Russ B.

Didn’t you just post everyone your :

“NO SWEARING! NO SWEARING! Naughty! Naughty! Umah! Omah!”

rules again the other day?

Would’ve expected a far more ‘Ned Flanders’ like use of euphemism’s to cover real wordsfrom you BA. At least the use of ‘Shi-ite’ for *that word* rather than just its Scottish form. Tut, tut!

& ‘crap’ it seems is okay … ?

I pity the descendents of the good Dr Thomas Crapper, whose ancestor invented one of the best, most revolutionary, most health-helping of things ever [the flushing loo] – only to have his name turned to ..well .. something far worse than mud!

Larger than Ceres? Size of the Moon? Size of Pluto? Or Charon or ..?

Interesting thought too – is the asteroid belt (both asteroids belts really) getting noticeably smaller over the millennia along with the size of the largest objects in it as impacts erode down the size & mass of the largest objects?

<Pallasites are chunks of asteroids that got smashed apart in impacts — < but not just any asteroid. In this case, the asteroid must have been big < enough to have moderate gravity. The iron and other heavier elements
< began to sink to the core of the asteroid, while lighter elements floated < to the top in a process called differentiation. Pallasites either form at
< the core/mantle boundary, or form when the impact mixed material
< from the core and mantle. Either way, pallasites come from deep
< inside a shattered asteroid that was big enough to have planet-like
< features.

And that source asteroid is Pallas – one of the larger & first discovered main belt asteroids I’m guessing – hence the name?

Incidentally since the Kuiper-Edgeworth disk is much larger in size & mass than the inner Mars-to-Jove asteroid belt shouldn’t that be called the main asteroid belt?

Cool story & pics Phil.

Gotta say I’d rather have a Pallasite than a parasite – or coprolite!