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Sheet Metal Calculators. Introducing The Phlatprinter * Available for Purchase * Phlatprinter - From Sketchup to the real world Hello, first off Richard, You have to love your job! I really don't know where I went off track with my career but designing and building machines is really a passion I have. I must tell you guys I have designed other machines as well. Just never put them public and most never left the design phase, but now maybe they will! The whole reason for these machines was to build a shop that could produce kits without out sourcing anything. The other machines I have plans for are A vacuum former with a 2'x2' area. 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Antarctic Meteorite Yields New Mineral | NASA Research | Meteorites & Early Solar System.

A meteorite discovered in Antarctica in 1969 has just divulged a modern secret: a new mineral, now called Wassonite. The new mineral found in the 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite was tiny — less than one-hundredth as wide as a human hair. Still, that was enough to excite the researchers who announced the discovery Tuesday (April 5). [Image of new mineral] "Wassonite is a mineral formed from only two elements, sulfur and titanium, yet it possesses a unique crystal structure that has not been previously observed in nature," NASA space scientist Keiko Nakamura-Messenger said in a statement.

The mineral's name, approved by the International Mineralogical Association, honors John T. Grains of Wassonite were analyzed from the meteorite that has been officially designated Yamato 691 enstatite chondrite. Yamato 691 likely originated from an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. When meteors hit the ground they are called meteorites. Material Properties of Teak, Wood Class I (>25y) | Wood Data Sheets. OandH.