Petrified Lightning - 3.682" Saharan Fulgurite shergottite 326" mission-flown nose landing gear

326" mission-flown nose landing gear tire fragment from the Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102)

While his Chicago Outfit waged war in the city's streets

where they were met with rough forests and steppes

The Challenger launch decision: Risky technology

This bundle includes the Amazing Ammonite

Petrified Lightning - 3.682" Saharan Fulgurite shergottite 326" mission-flown nose landing gearAbove: Front of the Specimen Card. When lightning strikes dry sand, the intense heat melts and fuses the silica creating tubes of rough glass called fulgurites. The process happens quickly, often trapping molecules from the surrounding atmosphere inside the walls of the impact tube. These natural time capsules allow scientists to study the composition of ancient climates. This specimen is a 3. 682" fulgurite collected in the Sahara Desert. Originally