[meteorite-list] Ensisheim TKW

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:53:32 2004
Message-ID: <20021203000023.16315.qmail_at_web10301.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello all

This is my 2 pieces in my collection of
Ensisheim...many nice the 0.46 piece....

http://it.geocities.com/meteoriti2000/ENSISHEIMGR.1.1.JPG

http://it.geocities.com/meteoriti20002/Ensisheimgr.0.46.JPG

Regards

Matteo

--- Zelimir Gabelica <Z.Gabelica_at_uha.fr> wrote:
> Hi Anne, Joseph, Charlie, Eric, Steven, Julien,
> Thomas, Russ and list,
> Helo
> I wrote a similar message a few days ago but it
> appears (at least to me)
> that it was not dispatched. I am trying again today
> but with much more updates.
>
> Many thanks to all of you who started to report the
> amount of Ensisheim
> meteorite that is resting in your collections.
> I especially appreciate when you tell me the
> source. The fact that, for
> example, Eric's piece comes from the Vatican
> collection and was before in
> that of the Marquis de Mauroy, is a nice story and a
> very interesting
> filliation.
> Knowing the former owners could perhaps soon result
> in a huge cobweb but
> this could also possibly help me in resolving many
> cross cuts and try to
> perhaps build one day a 510 years old family tree of
> the metorite. Nothing
> to loose to try.
>
> I was also impressed by the weight of the part slice
> owned by Joseph
> Murakami. 45 grams would put him close to the top of
> the "hit parade" of the
> meteorite lucky owners (excluding perhaps official
> museums that are by no
> means far on top).
> But so far, as the compilation of even tiny
> fragments can proove
> significant for the big total, may I suggest Joseph
> weighs his slice more
> accurately as every further fraction of gram is
> significant for us (and for
> him good to know). The milligrams of Charlie's or
> Steve's pieces mentioned
> for their accurately weighed pieces are significant
> to us as well and so is
> the 0.22 g fragment reported by Julien. Small
> gulches make big rivers.
>
> I also had in mind compiling the weights of
> Ensisheim meteorites owned by
> some official institutions and I'd appreciate
> curtators of these institutes
> or owners of the related private collections bring
> me their weights,
> corrections and/or additions.
> I was ready to start the official contacts but, in
> the meantime, Russ
> Kempton provided me with an invaluable list of
> repositories and private
> collection weights coming from his database.
> I am very grateful to him, as his list is a
> compilation of several data
> bases, probably recently updated. As many official
> data, it reflects only
> reported weights.
> At that stage, it is perhaps interesting to compare
> his data with those
> officially published in two other serious
> references, namely:
>
> 1) the BM. Catalog (M. Grady, Ed. 2000) and
> 2) our own "Red Book" archiving the History of
> Ensisheim ("ENSISHEIM, Son
> Histoire ŕ travers les Pierres", edited by the
> Confrérie St Georges des
> Gardiens de la Météorite d'Ensisheim, Sept. 1993,
> 133 pp, Table p 25 (World
> Distribution of the Ensisheim Meteorite Fragments,
> as compiled by J.
> Schmutzer, Hamburg, Gremany), data that are probably
> fragmentary and that
> need updating.
>
> Here is the result of my preliminary comparison of
> these 3 series of data:
>
> Place
> NEMS BM
> Catalog "Red Book"
>
> Ensisheim, Musée de la Régence 54.51 kg
> 55.75kg
> 55.75kg
> Paris, Mus. d'Hist. Nat 10.2
> kg
> 9.79 kg 9.79kg
> London; Nat. Hist. Mus. 911g
> 911.2g 689g (!)
> Berlin, Mus. Naturk., Humboldt Univ. 906g
> 905g
> 905g
> Vienna, Naturhist. Mus.
> 660g 588g
> (!) 660g
> Washington, U.S. Nat. Mus. 235g
> 258g
> (!) 458g (!!)
> Tübingen, Min.-Petrogr. Inst. 220g
> 316g
> (!) 316g (!)
> Uppsala Univ. Mus. -
> - 210g (?)
> Malta, Montana, Marlin Cilz Colln. -
> -
> 504g (?)
> Tempe, Arizona State Univ. 155g
> 209g
> (!) 209.5g (!)
> Brussels, Inst. Roy. Sci. Mus. 191g
> -
> 191.4g
> Zürich, ETH
> 189g
> - -
> Modena, Min. Inst. Univ. 177g
> -
> 177g
> Tucson, Haag Colln.
> 176g
> - 176g
> Cambridge, Univ.(GB) 133g
> -
> 147g
> Chicago, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 115g
> 109g
> 110g
> New York, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 112g
> 111g
> 127g
> Göttingen, Min. Inst. Univ. 111g
> -
> 158.6g (!)
> Karlsruhe Univ.
> -
> - 142.0g (?)
> Stockholm, Naturhist. Riksmus. 80g
> -
> 51.0g (!)
> Troyes, Mus. d'Hist. Nat.
> 79.1 -
> 82.0g (!)
> Calcutta, Mus. Geol. Surv. India 77g
> 77g
> 76.9g
> Copenhagen, Univ. Geol. Mus. 77g
> -
> 77.0g
> Rome, Vatican Observatory Colln. 77g
> 76g
> 77g
> Basel, Naturhist. Mus.
> 76g
> - -
> Strasbourg, Min. Mus
> 74g
> - 73.5g
> Dresden, Min. Geol. Mus. 73.4
> - 73.0g
> Oxford, Univ. Mus.
> 71g
> - -
> Kankakee, Illinois, J.Schwade Colln. 66g
> -
> 105.0g (!)
> Buenos Aires, Asoc. H. Pampa 63g
> -
> -
> Prague, Nat. Mus.
> 51.5g
> - 51.5g
> Stockholm Mus.
> -
> - 51.0g
> Fischerhude, Koblitz Colln
> 42.3
> - -
> Oeschgen, Beat Booz Colln.
> 38.5g -
> -
> Paris, École des Mines
> 38g
> - 38.0g
> Hamburg, Mus. Min.-Petrogr. Inst. 36.1g
> -
> 27.5g
> Moscow, Acad. Sci.
> 34g
> 33.52g 33.5g
> Turin Univ.
> -
> - 32.0g
> Harvard Univ. Min. Mus. -
> - 27.0
>
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