Photographers
micrometeorites
The Art of Adventure - Bruce Percy
I was watching a movie by Werner Herzog called ‘Fireball’, which is on Apple TV right now. In it, he met up with a scientist in Oslo who was using the rooftop of a local stadium as a catchment area for meteorites. But these meteorites are micro-meteorites. Tiny ‘space dust’ particles that he is able to hoover up with some magnets due to their iron compounds.
They are so small, that you’d think there would be nothing remarkable about them, as you can see in the photo of the finger.
But the scientists who’ve been collecting these micro-meteorites have been using some very high resolution photography to study them.
I found the photographs of them extremely beautiful.
I have no affiliation with the website where I got these images from. But it appears that you can buy these meteorites ! Anyway, if you’d like to go and view some more micro meteorites and see how they were found, you can visit the website treasuresfromspace.com.
I would also thoroughly recommend Werner Herzog’s movie ‘Fireball’. It’s on AppleTV.
