Millbillillie Meteorite

About a year ago I started to collect meteorites. This is the latest addition to my collection. A 157g Millbillillie meteorite, fell in October 1960 in Western Australia.

It is an eucrite meteorite type which is quite rare (only 3% of all meteorite falls). Eucrites have a shiny to glassy black fusion crust and grey-white interior.

The red color at the bottom of the specimen is typical for Millbillillie meteorites. It is caused by the red soil in the region where it fell to the ground. The surface of the crust is covered with flow lines from the supersonic descent to earth,when the surface was hot and molten.

Eucrites likely origin from the asteroid 4 Vesta. Some million years ago an asteroid crashed into the 530km diameter asteroid 4 Vesta and ejected tons of small fragments from 4 Vesta into space. Sometimes one of these ejected fragments collide with earth. A small fraction survives the fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and becomes a meteorite.

NASA's DAWN Spacecraft is currently enroute to 4 Vesta. When it arrives in 2011 we will hopefully learn whether the surface of 4 Vesta is of the same material as the eucrite meteorites or not. If it is the same material, then the Millbillillie meteorite is a piece of 4 Vesta in my hands.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Millbillillie
• Meteorite
• Eucrite

[imtang0708]

This is better than any diamond in the world!!!

[crazyeneb]

Why is it that no one seems to know how to string a simple sentence together anymore?

Don't leave out words. Don't use the wrong fucking word, ENGLISH PEOPLE!!!! ENGLISH!!!!

AHHHHH!!!!

[TheGreatkid55]

Wow dude this is really... (puts sunglasses on) OUT OF THIS WORLD! AWWW YEAH

[kennyman115]

element 115

zombies O_o

[TylerJayVain]

@crazyeneb ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT!?

[BenTheMagnifice]

@Benstrup Heavy, good try though, keep up the English lessons!

[Benstrup]

how havey is this one?

[rmakthon]

i like meteorites

[DingalingKing666]

any alien dna or things humans cant handle?

[CCHRIS03FR]

Asteroïde Oups!.. C'est quoi ? !!. .

[banditoxviii]

This shit should cost more then anything, cuzz its from a far far...far...far..galaxy...lol -

[Jerbod2]

I wonder why it looks like a foam rock which is painted, I wonder how much that thing is worth, assuming there isnt any other on planet earth!