[meteorite-list] Rare Stony-Iron Meteorite Kept In Missouri Garage For Two Years

From: Matt <Matt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:06 2004
Message-ID: <01d801c1b991$7a63ec90$8fbf7fa5_at_D7220234W2K>

Gotta be a pallasite. Most people couldn't recognize a mesosiderite.
-matt morgan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matson, Robert" <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_saic.com>
To: "'Ron Baalke'" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>;
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:55 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Rare Stony-Iron Meteorite Kept In Missouri Garage
For Two Years


> > MARYVILLE - One of the rarest types of meteorites, which
> > may date back 4.5 billion years, was kept in a Missouri garage
> > for about two years before a student brought it in to a
> > geology teacher at Northwest Missouri State.
>
> ...
>
> > "I said, 'Oh my gosh, a stony-iron meteorite,' " Rohs said.
> > Rohs took it to a University of Kansas professor, who confirmed
> > her conclusions.
>
> So the question is: pallasite or mesosiderite? --Rob
>
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Received on Tue 19 Feb 2002 05:05:00 PM PST