Catch A Falling Star

What a show a Geminid meteor showering provided! Unfortunately, while a meteors were easy to see with a unaided eye, they were not so easy to photograph.
In consequence, please enjoy a upon top of picture, taken final year around this time, of a outrageous green meteor upon top of a Mojave Desert. To get this, photographer Wallace Pacholka took 1522 shots, usually 48 of which captured meteors, but this a single made it all worthwhile. Last year, a meteors were descending during a rate of around 150 per hour. This year it seemed extremely greater.
"Sky iron" is a fun subject. As you all know, some phurbas have been made of meteorites. So, too, have been assorted amulets.
Above, is a nice specimen which has been with me for many years. It is iron, with about 7% nickel, and other minute traces. This is from a Campo del Cielo fall, around 620 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The tumble is estimated to have occurred between 2,200 to 2,700 BCE. The fall's craters were discovered -- in a era during slightest -- in 1576. The meteorite in question is regarded as a heaviest a single upon record: over 100 tons have been recovered so far, with a largest fragment weighing in during 37 tons.
Meteorite fragments can exhibit unusual characteristics. Do you see a finger impressions in a specimen above?

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