{"id":142386,"date":"2011-11-17T02:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T08:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=142386"},"modified":"2011-11-17T12:40:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:40:25","slug":"tjc-science-officials-announce-exhibit-of-record-meteorite-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=142386","title":{"rendered":"TJC, Science Officials Announce Exhibit of Record Meteorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=142387\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-142387\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/11\/Brenham-meteorite-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Brenham meteorite\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-142387\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER \u2014 Tyler Junior College and science officials announce an exhibit of the world\u2019s largest oriented pallasite meteorite. Following its stay at the TJC Center for Earth &#038; Space Science Education through May 2012, the meteorite will embark on a world tour beginning in Australia. Officials say it will likely not be on view again in the United States for another 10 years. Also in attendance were approximately 100 students from Moore MST Middle School. Speakers were Dr. Tom Hooten, director of the Center for Earth &#038; Space Science Education at TJC, and Phil Mani, owner of the meteorite.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing in at 1,430 pounds, the world\u2019s largest oriented pallasite meteorite fell to Earth about 10,000 years ago and was excavated from a field in rural Kansas in October 2005. It\u2019s called the Brenham meteorite, after the Kansas town where it was found. According to science officials, when meteorites enter the earth\u2019s atmosphere, they may be traveling at speeds as high as 17 miles per second. Some meteorites break up under the force of atmospheric pressure, while others spin as they approach the surface of our planet. Very few meteorites maintain the same orientation as they burn through the atmosphere and acquire a conical, rounded or bullet-shape as a result of melting and ablation. These shield or rocket nose-shaped meteorites are extremely rare, and are described as \u201coriented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pallasites are an extremely rare class of meteorite, accounting for only about 1 percent of all known meteorites. Pallasites are packed with translucent crystals of olivine (the semi-precious gemstone peridot) suspended in a nickel-iron matrix, and are thought to have formed at the core\/mantle boundary of an ancient celestial body. The Brenham meteorite is the largest pallasite ever recovered in the United States, along with being the largest oriented pallasite in history. For more information, call 903-510-2312.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Tyler Junior College and science officials announce an exhibit of the world\u2019s largest oriented pallasite meteorite. Following its stay at the TJC Center for Earth &#038; Space Science Education through May 2012, the meteorite will embark on a world tour beginning in Australia. Officials say it will likely not be on view again &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=142386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TJC, Science Officials Announce Exhibit of Record Meteorite<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 13:58:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142386"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142552,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142386\/revisions\/142552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}