August 2008

Note:  The August issue mailed on August 8.  Please remember that it can take up to three weeks to reach some locations.

Columns

From the Editors

Letters

News

Centerpiece: Minerals and Glass in Thin Sections
by O. Richard Norton

Review

Features

Account of a Meteorite Fall Near Bassikounou, Mauritania, on October 16, 2006, Part I: The Fall and Recovery of the Bassikounou Meteorite
by Svend Buhl, Matthias Baermann, Beda Hofmann, Patrick Weber, and Edwin Gnos

The Rolled Tektites!
by Don McColl 

Group Meteorite Hunt - Franconia
by Ruben Garcia

Hall of Meteorites
by Anita D. Westlake

When Rocks Fell Like Rain: The Late Heavy Bombardment
by David A. Minton

Show of Force: Tucson 2008 from Room 230
by Geoffrey Notkin

The Newly Discovered Woodbury, Georgia, Astrobleme
by Hal Povenmire

The 16th Annual Tokyo International Mineral Show
by Dirk Ross 

How YOU Can Make Cosmic Impacts of the Highest Order
by Dave Gheesling