Edward M Krikorian
Welcome to my website and meteorite information page!
Impossible crystals are 'from space'
Icosahedrite specimen found in Russia
Until two years ago, quasicrystals had only been created in the lab - then geologists found them in rocks from Russia's Koryak mountains.
Examples of a crystal previously thought to be impossible in nature may have come from space, a study shows.
Comet Hartley jets
Above you see a photo of a real comet photographed by a NASA probe. What I think you should pay special attention to is the jets. The jets on this comet probably provide no change in position or velocity. I think you, the viewer, should consider this: if a comet larger that Hartley comes near the Sun, it could have large gas eruptions that could change the orbital path of the comet in unpredictable ways. This is a reality. In other words, chaos theory could come in to play. It is important that every comet approaching the Sun be monitored in every way possible.
Antikythera Mechanism
Modern mechanical watch
Antikythera Mechanism animation files
Click the image above to download the mechanism animation:
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16 Watt 10 Vacuum Tube kit built audio amplifier
Lightning Captured by X-Ray Camera—A First
Frozen lakes of water discovered on Mars by The European Space Agency Mars orbiter
Substance theory, or substance attribute theory, is an
ontological theory about object hood, positing that a substance is distinct from
its properties. A thing-in-itself is a property-bearer that must be
distinguished from the properties it bears.
Substance is a key concept in ontology and metaphysics. Philosophies may be
divided into Monist, Dualist, or Pluralist varieties according to the number of
substances they consider the world to comprise. According to Monistic views,
such as those of stoicism and Spinoza, there is only one substance, often
identified as God or Being. These modes of thinking are sometimes associated
with the idea of immanence. Dualism sees the world as being composed of two
fundamental substances, while Pluralism, a feature of Platonism, for example,
and Aristotelianism, states that more substances exist, and often that these
substances can be placed into an ontological hierarchy.
Dark Matter ?
What is it? How is it detected?
In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is matter that is inferred to exist from gravitational effects on visible matter and background radiation, but is undetectable by emitted or scattered electromagnetic radiation. Its existence was hypothesized to account for discrepancies between calculations of the mass of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the entire universe made through dynamical and general relativistic means, and calculations based on the mass of the visible "luminous" matter these objects contain: stars and the gas and dust of the interstellar and intergalactic medium. It is probably cold and if so, probably weakly interacting massive particles or many primordial intermediate mass black holes between 30 and 300,000 solar masses, or both.
The total mass within giant galaxy cluster CL0025+1654, about
4.5 billion light-years away, produces a cosmic gravitational lens -- bending
light as predicted by Einstein's theory of gravity and forming detectable images
of even more distant background galaxies. Of course, the total cluster mass is
the sum of the galaxies themselves, seen as ordinary luminous matter, plus the
cluster's invisible dark matter whose nature remains unknown. But by analyzing
the distribution of luminous matter and the properties of the gravitational
lensing due to total cluster mass, researchers have solved the problem of
tracing the dark matter layout. Their resulting map shows the otherwise
invisible dark matter in blue, and the positions of the cluster galaxies in
yellow. The work, based on extensive Hubble Space Telescope observations,
reveals that the cluster's dark matter is not evenly distributed, but follows
the clumps of luminous matter closely.
Positron (antimatter) Collection:
Potassium-40 is in common table salt substitute
My Encyclopedia of Meteorites Collection
Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Meteorite Classification Chart
Important News:
NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life in CI1 meteorite:
This meteorite fragment of asteroid 2008 TC3 is one of about 600 recovered from Sudan’s Nubian desert. Amino acids found in one fragment suggest that these fragile building blocks of life may be able to form without liquid water and in high heat.
Chemical Composition of Meteorites
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The International Meteorite Collectors Association (IMCA Inc.) has one primary purpose: helping Meteorite Collectors in their search for Authentic Meteorites for their collections and assisting others in helping to learn more about meteorites. Whether they are new to the Meteorite World or very knowledgeable, we want all Collectors to buy/trade with confidence from our Members, knowing that every item will be exactly what it is represented to be.
David Weir's Meteorite Studies
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2008 TC3 (Catalina Sky Survey temporary designation 8TA9D69) was a meteoroid 2 to 5 meters (7 to 16 ft) in diameter that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008, at 02:46 UTC (05:46 local time). It exploded an estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. A search of the impact zone that began on December 2008 turned up 3.95 kilograms (8.7 lb) of meteorites in 280 fragments, which are surviving pieces of the meteoroid. The meteorites are of a rare type known as ureilites, which contain, among other minerals, nanodiamonds.
The meteoroid was discovered by Richard A. Kowalski at the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) 1.5-meter telescope at Mount Lemmon, north of Tucson, Arizona, USA, on October 6, 06:39 UTC, about 20 hours before the impact.
The meteoroid was notable as the first such body to be observed and tracked prior to reaching Earth.
Orbital diagram of 2008 TC3 shown in blue below:
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6 Hebe is the probable parent body of the H chondrite meteorites and the IIE iron meteorites.
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Vesta is the brightest asteroid. Its greatest distance from the Sun is slightly more than the minimum distance of Ceres from the Sun, and its orbit is entirely within the orbit of Ceres. Vesta lost some 1% of its mass in a collision less than one billion years ago. Many fragments of this event have fallen to Earth as Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite (HED) meteorites, a rich source of evidence about the asteroid.
Orbit of Vesta:
Dawn's goal is to characterize the conditions and processes of the solar system's earliest epoch by investigating in detail two of the largest protoplanets remaining intact since their formations. Ceres and Vesta reside in the extensive zone between Mars and Jupiter together with many other smaller bodies, called the asteroid belt. Each has followed a very different evolutionary path constrained by the diversity of processes that operated during the first few million years of solar system evolution.
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Diamonds From Outer Space: Geologists Discover Origin Of Earth's Mysterious Black Diamonds:
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Did lefty molecules from meteorites seed life?
Fossilized Life Forms in the Murchison Meteorite
Murchison CM2 meteorite:
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Meteorite Found to Contain Water From Our Solar System's Infancy
ZAG H3-6 meteorite:
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Fossils of Martian bugs found on meteorite that landed on Earth 13,000 years ago
ALH84001 Martian (OPX) meteorite:
The Martian Rotini-Mars Fossils photographed by Mars lander?
For more information click here
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Nanobacteria-like calcite single crystals at the surface of the Tataouine meteorite
Tataouine Diogenite meteorite
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June 13, 2006: There's a new crater on the Moon. It's about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old.
NASA astronomers watched it form: "On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon's Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energyâ?�that's about the same as 4 tons of TNT," says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL. "The impact created a bright fireball which we video-recorded using a 10-inch telescope."
Lunar impacts have been seen before--"stuff hits the Moon all the time," notes Cooke--but this is the best-ever recording of an explosion in progress:
See flash in upper right above.
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Europa is the sixth moon of the planet Jupiter.
It is this website's creator opinion that a Europa type object collided with Earth billions of years ago and transferred it's frozen ice to Earth to form Earth's oceans. The moon is all that is left of the original collider.
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Penrose Diagram:
Create your own reality--The double slit experiment--Wave collapse
RetroPsychoKinesis Experiments Online
Retropsychokinesis is the claimed ability of certain subjects to alter random data generated, but not examined, prior to the time the data are presented to the subject. Crazy, you say! Well, there's certainly no mechanism in mainstream physics which could permit such an effect, yet experiments conducted by a number of different researchers over the last 20 years suggest, compellingly according to some analyses, that the probability of the results obtained in such experiments being purely the result of chance is sufficiently low that they would be considered evidence of a causal mechanism in most scientific disciplines.
Do it yourself amino acid creation:
You can do it yourself: Start with a large rocky planet with a primordial atmosphere and liquid salt water. Next add a volcano and a little of this:
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Evolution of the known Universe
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Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
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Stars within a 47.2 light year radius. Interactive Java graphic.
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Black Holes
The Black hole at the center of our galaxy
Click here for 3d large animation
Object orbits black hole simulation diagram:
Hubble Finds Rare Progenitor to a Supernova
Click on image above for full size image.
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Visualizations of element spectra in the range 400 - 700 nm
CP violation and the matter-antimatter imbalance
One of the unsolved theoretical questions in physics is why the universe is made
chiefly of matter, rather than consisting of equal parts of matter and
antimatter. It can be demonstrated that to create an imbalance in matter and
antimatter from an initial condition of balance, the Sakharov conditions must be
satisfied, one of which is the existence of CP violation during the extreme
conditions of the first seconds after the Big Bang. Explanations which do not
involve CP violation are less plausible, since they rely on the assumption that
the matter-antimatter imbalance was present at the beginning, or on other
admittedly exotic assumptions.
The Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and anti-matter if
CP-symmetry was preserved; as such, there should have been total cancellation of
both. In other words, protons should have cancelled with anti-protons, electrons
with positrons, neutrons with anti-neutrons, and so on for all elementary
particles. This would have resulted in a sea of photons in the universe with no
matter. Since this is quite evidently not the case, after the Big Bang, physical
laws must have acted differently for matter and antimatter, i.e. violating CP
symmetry.
The Standard Model contains only two ways to break CP symmetry. The first of
these, discussed above, is in the QCD Lagrangian, and has not been found
experimentally; but one would expect this to lead to either no CP violation or a
CP violation that is many, many orders of magnitude too large. The second of
these, involving the weak force, has been experimentally verified, but can
account for only a small portion of CP-violation. It is predicted to be
sufficient for a net mass of normal matter equivalent to only a single galaxy in
the known universe.
Since the Standard Model does not accurately predict this discrepancy, it would
seem that the current Standard Model has gaps (other than the obvious one of
gravity and related matters) or physics is otherwise in error. Moreover,
experiments to probe these CP-related gaps may not require the practically
impossible-to-obtain energies that may be necessary to probe the gravity-related
gaps
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M-theory, the theory formerly known as Strings
The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. It is the only Standard Model particle not yet observed, but would help explain how otherwise massless elementary particles still manage to construct mass in matter. In particular, it would explain the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z bosons. Elementary particle masses, and the differences between electromagnetism (caused by the photon) and the weak force (caused by the W and Z bosons), are critical to many aspects of the structure of microscopic (and hence macroscopic) matter; thus, if it exists, the Higgs boson has an enormous effect on the world around us.
As of yet, no experiment has directly detected the existence of the Higgs boson, but this may change as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN produces results.
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Since quasicrystals lost periodicity in at least one dimension it is not possible to describe them in 3D-space as easily as normal crystal structures. Thus it becomes more difficult to find mathematical formalisms for the interpretation and analysis of diffraction data. For normal crystals we can assign three integer values (Miller indices) to label the observable reflections. This is due to the three-dimensional translational periodicity of the structure. In order to assign integer indices to the diffraction intensities of quasicrystals, however, at least 5 linearly independent vectors are necessary. So we need 5 indices for polygonal quasicrystals and 6 indices for icosahedral quasicrystals. We can call them generalized Miller indices. The necessary n vectors span a nD-reciprocal space. Therefore there is also a nD-direct space in which a structure can be built that gives rise to a diffraction pattern as it is observed for quasicrystals. To put it simply we can say that in the higher-dimensional space we can describe a quasiperiodic structure as a periodic one.
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