[meteorite-list] Plainview, TX fall information wanted
From: almitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:48:10 2004 Message-ID: <3BBE0AA3.DC6EC637_at_kconline.com> --------------93EABC796009B79F3555ED65 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Martin and all, I think this 25lbs meteorite might have actually hit the horse trough (sp?) and was recovered from there. I talked to Blaine Reed who has or might still have part of the actual meteorite available and he had mentioned this. --AL Martin Horejsi wrote: > Hi All, > > I am looking for information about the suspected sort-of-witnessed fall of the > Plainview, Texas meteorite. What I’ve heard thus far is that one night in 1903 some > men heard their horses go a little crazy. In the morning, there was a broken fence > rail and a hole in the ground that the horses would not go near. A 25lb meteorite > was pulled from the hole. > > Apparently, this stone sat around somewhere for some length of time. At a later > time, the stone was sliced and it was discovered that it was actually a Plainview > specimen except that it was discovered miles of the 1917 Plainview strewnfield. > > Any citations or sources of information would be helpful. > > Cheers and thanks, > > Martin > > > --------------93EABC796009B79F3555ED65 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Hi Martin and all, <p>I think this 25lbs meteorite might have actually hit the horse trough (sp?) and was recovered from there. I talked to Blaine Reed who has or might still have part of the actual meteorite available and he had mentioned this. <p>--AL <p>Martin Horejsi wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><font face="Helvetica">Hi All,</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">I am looking for information about the suspected sort-of-witnessed fall of the Plainview, Texas meteorite. What I’ve heard thus far is that one night in 1903 some men heard their horses go a little crazy. In the morning, there was a broken fence rail and a hole in the ground that the horses would not go near. A 25lb meteorite was pulled from the hole.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">Apparently, this stone sat around somewhere for some length of time. At a later time, the stone was sliced and it was discovered that it was actually a Plainview specimen except that it was discovered miles of the 1917 Plainview strewnfield.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">Any citations or sources of information would be helpful.</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">Cheers and thanks,</font> <p><font face="Helvetica">Martin</font> <br> <br> <br> </blockquote> </html> --------------93EABC796009B79F3555ED65-- Received on Fri 05 Oct 2001 03:31:50 PM PDT |
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