How to Identify a Meteorite ☄️ External Features Explained - What to look for & how formed! Asteroid

0:00 Welcome to the highest quality weekly meteorite education. Today we learn all about the external features of meteorites. After watching, you will know how to ID and explain these features found on the outside of meteorites. I advise that you watch the entire show – It is just full of informative Show and Tell and loads education as always.

1:30 Our three goals for you
3:00 Videos: numerous examples (from Germany & Croatia)
31:00 Slickensides
35:30 Earth’s effects on meteorites
37:25 Fusion crust on Aubrites & Carbonaceous
41:49 Raised shock veins
45:00 Fluted / elongated regmaglypts
50:20 Meteorite 101 (deep dive)
1:10:00 Vesicles, Primary vs secondary fusion crust
1:13:30 Examples of weathering, Contraction cracks
1:16:40 Desert varnish
1:18:24 Testing time! (Did we accomplish our goals?)
1:23:30 Ten seconds of the 4 billion years!


1. Flow lines
2. Radial flow lines
3. Oriented / orientation
4. Spawling
5. Regmaglypts
6. Fluted / elongated regmaglypts
7. Hitchhikers
8. Primary fusion crust
9. Secondary fusion crust
10. Desert varnish
11. Caliche
12. Rollover lipping
13. Weathering
14. Slickensides
15. Different colored fusion crusts
16. Iridescent fusion crust
17. Metal blebs
18. Blowouts
19. Contraction cracks
20. Frothy /Pooling fusion crust
21. Vesicles
22. Vugs
23. Raised shock veins
24. High Iron fusion crust (bluing)
25. Impactors on fusion crust
26. Impact scuffs / marks
27. Weathered Widmanstätten patterns

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