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

From: meteorites_at_space.com <meteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:07 2004
Message-ID: <20020219175759.8486.c000-h017.c000.wm_at_mail.space.com.criticalpath.net>

On Tue, 19 February 2002, "Matt Morgan" wrote

>
> I heard 2.3 kg or so.

Unless the object in question is examined by an
authority on meteorites, I would take this report with
more than a "grain of salt"

So many times I get letters and e-mails saying that the
rocks found were "confirmed by a college"

and it turns out otherwise...

Steve Schoner.
AMS
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Miconi" <mam602_at_cox.net>
> To: "Matson, Robert" <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_saic.com>
> Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rare Stony-Iron
Meteorite Kept In Missouri
> Garage For Two Years
>
>
> > Did they mention how big it is? I did not see it in
the article.
> >
> > Mark M
> > ----- 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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