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Cover:
Magnified images of thin sections of meteorites from the
Vatican collection. The beautiful colors, created by polarized light, reveal
information about a meteorite's structure and chemical composition, including
its shock history. These images were made using the VO Meteorite Laboratory's
new petrographic microscope.
Front cover (top to bottom): The Martian meteorite Say al Uhamir;
the ordinary chondrite Knyahinya; and the rare CK5-class meteorite Dar al Gani 412.
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Back cover (top to bottom): A new technique for measuring the magnetic
properties of meteorites, pioneered at the Observatory's Meteorite Laboratory, found
that the meteorites shown here were originally misidentified. The top two thin-section
images, originally labeled as the H-chondrite Luponnas, are actually a L5 or L6
chondrite. The bottom image, originally labeled as the E chondrite Daniel's Kuil,
is in fact either a basaltic achondrite or a mesosiderite.
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| Cover Artist: Dave Fischer |
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