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@daverodland.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 6:23 PM

Bear with me, all, on a thread for #MeteoriteMonday.
May 1, 1860, just after lunch, a skygrazer meteorite broke up in an airburst over Sarahsville, Ohio, as it shot across a partially overcast sky towards the northwest. Fragments fell across Guernsey and Muskingum counties, to the NW.

Selfie with the largest known surviving piece of the New Concord meteorite, at Marietta College
@daverodland.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 11:20 AM

Going multipurpose here for #MolluskMonday, #MineralMonday and #MeteoriteMonday !
🧪⚒️🦑💎☄️

Look, it's going to be a long day in the collections.

Display cabinet. On the left, a brass armature holds an irregular lump labeled: 
"meteorite
Sikhote Alin, Russia
W.M. Smith collection" 
On the right, a sector of nacreous shell labeled:
"polished ammonite (the suffix "id" is crossed out, and "ite" written by hand)
Mineral is aragonite (mother-of-pearl)
W.M. Smith collection"
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