[meteorite-list] numbering of meteorites

From: Dave Harris <entropydave_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:47:04 2004
Message-ID: <002101c16326$b9112460$708a073e_at_default>

Hi Rob,
This is excellent stuff! This is why I love the list... it has so much good
and relevant details to contribute!
The gift that keeps on giving!
thanks!
dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Lenssen" <rlenssen_at_tref.nl>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>; "Dave Harris"
<entropydave_at_ic24.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [meteorite-list] numbering of meteorites


> Hi Dave,
>
> It's not that I want to spoil your party, but I also own a
> Sikhote-Alin-with-a-label, and just like you did some research.
>
> This is what I found:
>
> Krinov's book "Giant Meteorites" contains a great section about the
> Sikhote-Alin meteorite shower. There are nice pictures like this one
> (http://leden.tref.nl/~rlenssen/SA2.jpg) of some of the 313 unfragmented
> whole single specimens found during the 1947-1950 expeditions. It also
> contains a complete list of all specimens found, including their Soviet
> Academy of Sciences inventory numbers. They are all four digit numbers
> starting at least with a "1". Lots of 1600-numbers though.
>
> In the journal Chem. d. Erde (15 Chem. Erde Bd. XXIX; in German) dated
1970
> (Walter Zeitschel kindly provided me with a copy 6 years ago), Dr. Krinov
> also reports about the 1967-1969 expeditions. Also some pictures here like
> this one (http://leden.tref.nl/~rlenssen/SA3.jpg). Also two and three
number
> digits this time. Krinov reports about 958 more unfragmented whole single
> specimens found. He talkes about good preservation of the crust, although
> also having brown color due to oxidation. More expeditions were expected
to
> follow (1970 and later).
>
> Dave, your typewritten '0086'-number on a "look like linen"-label,
reminded
> me of a picture a saw in a dealers catalog ("Catalog and handbook of
> meteorites") I received in 1992. Does your sample look like this number
> "0067", I scanned from the catalog: http://leden.tref.nl/~rlenssen/SA1.jpg
?
> I don't know it's origin, but it certainly does not have the surface
quality
> of the 1947-1950 Krinov finds.
>
> No answers here, but I hope you appreciate the information.
>
> I am also stil looking for information on the orgin of my sample
> (http://leden.tref.nl/~rlenssen/SikhoteAlin-7a.jpg ,
> http://leden.tref.nl/~rlenssen/SikhoteAlin-7b.jpg ,
> http://leden.tref.nl/~rlenssen/SikhoteAlin-7e.jpg). I bought it from Eric
> Twelker from "meteoritemarket" + like it very much. It does not look be
> wire-brushed or chemically cleaned. Trying to find some info, I sent an
> Email to the curator of the Soviet Academy of Sciences collection two
months
> ago, but did not get an answer (yet).
> Anybody else who can shed some light here?
>
> Rob Lenssen
>
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Dave Harris <entropydave_at_ic24.net>
> Aan: geoking_at_notkin.net <geoking@notkin.net>; metlist
> <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> CC: Rob and Colleen <iguana_at_pcez.com>
> Datum: donderdag 1 november 2001 19:53
> Onderwerp: Re: Re: [meteorite-list] numbering of meteorites
>
>
> >Hi Geoff!
> >Wow! That's some detective work - amazing!!
> >And that's also some provenance too! Wasn't Krinov the first
investigator
> >of the Tunguska event? I know that name...
> >I am totally in love with that SA anyway - it was on the original eBay
> >advert - I recall showing it to a (rather bored) colleague at work saying
"
> >that's m'boy! I want that one!", but obviously, not being in the running
> for
> >the whole collection I thought it impossible I would procure it - then
the
> >inestimable Mr. Wesel swoops in from no where and scoops the lot and
> whaddya
> >know! I get the chance to buy it!
> >I prevaricated for a day - had I not I would have had your one too!!!
> >So, a multitude of thanks to all of those involved - you, Steve Schoner
(a
> >name I have seen an awful lot on the list!) and Rob Wesel for giving me
the
> >opportunity to purchase this breathtaking specimen!
> >it's gone to a great home!
> >
> >dave
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <geoking_at_notkin.net>
> >To: <entropydave_at_ic24.net>
> >Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:14 PM
> >Subject: Fwd: Re: [meteorite-list] numbering of meteorites
> >
> >
> >> Steve Schoner posted:
> >>
> >> >These are original Soviet Academy of Sciences labels. That is the
> >> >way the did it, and I have in my collection two pieces that were
> >> >sent to me by the late Dr. Krinov in 1972 with the same type labels--
> >>
> >> Holy cow! I was hoping they were maybe Russian labels, but I had no
> >evidence.
> >>
> >> Steve Schoner should know -- he is quite the expert (and a very nice
> >> guy). This is very exciting. Okay, so if you ever decide to get rid
> >> of that Sikhote, I'm your customer : )
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Geoff N>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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