October 29th, 2009
Luxury mobile phone maker Mobiado has just unveiled the Grand 350 Pioneer, the world’s first phone to “utilize the compelling beauty of meteorite.”
The company says that the Grand 350 Pioneer pays homage to NASA, more exactly, to the Pioneer 10 spacecraft that NASA launched back in 1972.
Pioneer 10 passed through the Solar System’s asteroid belt and is now on its way to Aldebaran (or Alpha Tauri) in the Taurus constellation.
February 19th, 2009
Diamond will always be a woman’s best friend but the gemstone is no longer the world’s hardest material, according to scientists.
Instead, a rare natural substance, called lonsdaleite, which is made from carbon atoms just like diamond, has emerged as 58 per cent harder than the gemstone, according to a report in the New Scientist.
Rare mineral lonsdaleite is sometimes formed when meteorites containing graphite hit Earth. Via ItvNews
May 21st, 2008
Australian company Starpics has created a completely unique pair of guitar picks made from meteors.
Said to be around 4 billion years old, Gibeon meteorites were discovered in 1836 in Namibia, Africa, where their sale and export were banned by the local government.
Despite that fact, over twenty-five tons of the meteorites have been recovered and it is the most commonly found meteorite on the market today.
