Our February guest speaker was our very own Jim Tobin who gave another wonderful presentation on meteorites. Jim's presentation was on the history of meteorites, types of meteorites, and their importance to science. It was a very informative PowerPoint presentation. Jim also brought a display case full of various types of meteorites, an electronic microscope to view the Widmanstätten pattern on a slice of etched iron meteorite, and a thin section viewer to display a very colorful thin section of a meteorite. Jim also brought samples of various meteorites which he passed around during his talk.
After Jim's presentation he answered all questions and then invited everyone up to where his display case, electronic microscope, and thin section viewer were set up. Jim then continued his fascinating explanations of everything meteorites.
We'd like to thank Jim very much for his third presentation to the club. Jim had previously given a talk on meteorites, and another talk on Meteor Crater to TVGMS.
