Rocks From Space Picture of the Day
February 9, 2006
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Contemporary lithography of Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni, the founder of meteoritics as a science. The illustration shows Chladni, who was also active in other fields of science, demonstrating acustic figures to the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Today these figures are commonly known as 'Chladni-figures'. Chladni donated his precious collection of 41 meteorites to the Mineralogical Museum Berlin where they are preserved until the present. Bottom picture taken from the Berlin MNH web site show an Ensisheim fragment & Chladnis handwritten label.
Scan courtesy of : Dr. Svend Buhl (www.niger-meteorite-recon.de)
Author & editor: Michael Johnson (SPACEROCKSINC.com)
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