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BLACK ONAPING THE 11TH SPHERE OF MY COLLECTION COMPLETED SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 I obtained this material as partial payment for a piece of Libyan Glass I sold to a fellow collector named Simon de Boer. I knew very little about the Sudbury Impact Crater but I became very familiar with it after several conversations & emails with Simon. He offered me samples of the different impact melts from that crater but I selected this one based on color and composition. It could almost be classified as a meteorwrong. John at The Rare Earth Trading Company worked on this sphere, my Nininger Museum Brick Sphere & my Uruacu Sphere simultaneously. Due to the highly glossy surface of this sphere it is very difficult to photograph.
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Name: Black Onaping Observed fall: Not applicable Year found: Not Applicable Country: Canada Mass: Not Applicable Classification: Impact Melt Glass Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The Sudbury Basin is the second largest known impact crater on Earth. It is 62 km long, 30 km wide and 15 km deep. It was created as the result of a 10 km meteorite impact that occurred 1.85 billion years. Debris was scattered over an area of 1 million square miles and travelled over 500 miles away. This impact created a variety of impact breccia, the onapings are composed of loose dusty granular material which when re-solidified, produced a very hard and unique breccia. Source: Excerpts from Wikapedia and the Meteorite Labels Website |
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