[meteorite-list] Stony-Iron Meteorite In Missouri Garage

From: Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:06 2004
Message-ID: <3C72C983.6F533AA2_at_lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Ron Baalke informed us:

> "Geologists are a conservative bunch," he said. "I was still trying to
> convince myself that something this rare couldn't be sitting in my office."

So far so good, but:

> Besides, Felton had seen meteorites only behind museum glass.

Hm!

> Rohs said stony-iron meteorites typically net between $2 and $10 per gram.

Typically, a lot of people always consider
the monetary aspects first ?!?!

> In the mid-1980s, there were only 73 in the world, one
> of them found in Missouri, two in Kansas and one in Iowa.

Statistical survey:

042 pallasites worldwide without Antarctica
038 mesosiderites worldwide without Antarctica

005 US-Antarctic pallasites (or maybe 6 => QUE 93148)
026 US-Antarctic mesosiderites ( or 27 => ALHA81208)

002 Japanese Antarctic pallasites (maybe some more now!)
004 Japanese Antarctic mesosiderites (maybe some more now!)


Best wishes,

Bernd
Received on Tue 19 Feb 2002 04:54:11 PM PST