Thursday, 1 August 2013

The Insides of Meteorites Are Nature’s Stained Glass

Gizmodo UK
Gizmodo UK 
The Insides of Meteorites Are Nature's Stained Glass
Aug 1st 2013, 10:00, by Leslie Horn

18vkpxzhtwumdjpgOn the outside, meteorites look like volcanic rocks. But astronomy photographer Jeff Barton cracks them open to reveal the glittering geodes inside. Barton—who is the director of Sciences at Cowell, Texas’s Three Rivers Foundation—calls the innards of space debris “natural stained glass.” He’s been collecting these gems since 2004. The photos from this set are [...]

    


App.net Delicious Digg Evernote Facebook Google Bookmarks Google Plus Instapaper LinkedIn StumbleUpon Tumblr Twitter
You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.

If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions

No comments:

Post a Comment