Shocked Belemnites Ries Crater, Germany

[Atomic Rat]

The energy from this blast would have killed everything for hundreds if not thousands of miles. It blew moldavites into czechos. If I remember the story correctly, the belemnites were fossilized 800 feet below ground. I don't know of any meteorite that survived the explosion?

[Atomic Rat]

Love the Belemnites Atomic Rat I've been collecting and cabbing the meteorites too, still find it hard to absorb the age of them tho.

I just recently got a NWA 869 ring and pendant for xmas. If you want something, you have to do it yourself. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge.) i could not afford much meteorite this year. I have to get my roof fixed before I can do anything else. Didn't know spring rain was filling my closet with water. By the time I found it, it was way too late. No help from insurance so I am cringing the estimate this week.

[xonenine]

I was just reading about it, amazing blast, I'll have to look at the impact glass if it's for auction, no mentions of any other materials though.

Edit: funny simulpost, I got to cut my first little 20 gram 869 this month.

Edited December 15, 2010 by xonenine

[Atomic Rat]

I have breccia from there. Nothing spectacular looking but still breccia.

[xonenine]

breccias beautiful though, I am a big fan of bertrandite.Just cut some Campo stuff, that is really cool to polish, and cheap to mess with.

Edited December 15, 2010 by xonenine

[Atomic Rat]

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=belemnites&_sacat=0&_odkw=belemnite&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

Shocked belemnites are for auction/buy now on ebay now--less than $40. Sale ends in one day.

[DragonHunter]

Yup, those things have major coolness factor. If you want to produce some ultra high resolution images of them, you can use an ordinary flat bed scanner to produce images with micrscopic detail, and ultra precise focus, that far exeeds anything you can get with a camera.

Simply lay them out on the surface of the scanner. Cover them with a towel or other opaque cloth that'll provide a good background for your image. And then scan them at the scanner's highest resolution as if they were a flat image.

Even an ordinary flatbed scanner can hit 2400 dots per inch. And the high-end ones can do even better. You'll be amazed at the quality of the image you can get.

The trick works especially well for hi resolution imaging of spearpoints, arrow heads, and other relatively flat specimens..

[Kosmoceras]

Looks great! Wouldn't mind collecting them....

[Herb]

Sweet belemnites!