HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - On the ground floor of the Festival Conference and Student Center on James Madison University’s campus lies a treasure trove of minerals from around our planet - and off our ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

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The Los Angeles Meteorite has an interesting history. Most meteorites have more specific information about the location they were found, but not this one. Bob Verish found two stones in the Mojave ...

Charles Upham Shepard (1804-1886) was a mineralogist and authority on meteorites. Shepard was educated at Amherst College, graduating in 1824. After a short period as a school teacher in Boston, ...