Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Mineralogy / December 2005

Magnetite platelets in the Orgueil carbonaceous meteorite
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Set of pictures made under the scanning electron microscope of
magnetites separated from the Orgueil carbonaceous meteorite:

http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/orgueuil_magnetite¨

Hopefully also present in STARDUST dust collection (return on earth
scheduled on Jan. 06, 2006)

Early cosmic dust pictures
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Reproduction of, and comments on, the pictures of "cosmic dust"
collected during H.M.S. CHALLENGER's expedition (1873-1876), and
published in 1891 in the "Deep Sea Deposits" vol. (Drawn by the
Belgian petrographer Alphonse Renard:

http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/cosmicdust.pdf

J.J.