[meteorite-list] Meteorite May Have Fallen In Maryland

From: Michael Farmer <farmerm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:11 2004
Message-ID: <000b01c1c07f$bcce49a0$3bd00140_at_computer>

Wow, that is about as fresh a fall as Gold Basin!
Mike Farmer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Pauli HD" <bernd.pauli_at_lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:15 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite May Have Fallen In Maryland


> Ron Baalke informed the List:
>
> >
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-te.md.meteor28feb28.story?coll=bal%2Dl
ocal%2Dheadlines
>
> > 'Falling star' may have fallen in Md.
>
>
> Hm!? Looks like a NWA at first sight
> but it's just a photo, no more no less :-(
>
> > A 1-pound iron meteorite was found near Emmittsburg, in Frederick
County, in
> > 1854. Another, weighing almost 3 pounds, was plowed up in Garrett
County, near
> > Lonaconing, in 1888.
>
> There has been some confusion about the Emmitsburg IIIAB iron. Both
> Buchwald and the Catalogue state that the Shrewsbury IAB iron was found
> in Pennsylvania. But, on p. 565 of his trilogy, Buchwald writes that
> "Shrewsbury was found in Maryland". The reason for this confusion is
> that there is a place called Shrewsbury both in Maryland and in
> Pennsylvania (actually, there are nine Shrewsburys in the USA :-)
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bernd
>
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