[meteorite-list] Lost Grenta and Wooster Meteorites

From: Rick Nowak <internationalmeteoritesociety_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:51 2004
Message-ID: <20020125062107.41855.qmail_at_web21003.mail.yahoo.com>

--- Rick Nowak
<internationalmeteoritesociety_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Their is a great research engine done by Bill Peck.
> I
> used the word "Lost" and came up with Plymouth
> Wooster
> etc. Wooster is right in my backyard. A man by the
> name of Peter Williams found the meteorite at
> Wooster
> took it to the mint at Philly. The mint took a few
> ounces to sample. Peter split and he has not been
> seen
> since. So out their somewhere since deceased is
> Peter
> Williams and his meteorite. This research came up by
> going thru Yale. Bill helps you get in the door
> .Bill's engine is at
>
> http://meteoritemaps.com/search/vocab-srch.html
>
> Bill's egine told me along with another book of the
> LOST THIRD SECTION OF GRANTA See Results
>
> You entered: gretna
>
> gretna
> In 1912 the gretna meteorite was found in Phillips
> County, Kansas, USA. It is a Stone meteorite,
> classified as a L5, Olivine­hypersthene chondrite.
> A stone, broken into three pieces, was found 12
> miles
> N. of gretna. Two of the pieces weigh 36kg and
> 22.7kg
> and fit together, indicating the loss of a third
> fragment, probably about 23kg. Described and
> figured,
> H.H. Nininger, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 1936, 39,
> p.172. Mentioned, A.D. Nininger, Pop. Astron.,
> Northfield, Minnesota, 1937, 45, p.449 (M.A. 7­62).
> Olivine Fa25, B. Mason, Geochimica et Cosmochimica
> Acta, 1963, 27, p.1011. May be synonymous with
> Phillips County (stone) (q.v.).
> Kansas
> USA
>
> A search on the net turned this up at
>
>
http://www.lasr.net/leisure/kansas/phillips/body.html
>
> Gretna - In 1915, 12 miles north, fossil hunter
> George
> Sternberg discovered a meteorite weighing 80 lb..
> Gretna was originally named Dana.
>
> The missing third section of Gretna!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> George Sternberg I found out was a great and fossil
> hunter go to
>
> http://www.fhsu.edu/sternberg/family.html
>
> Later I found out by contacting Fort Hay State
> University that their recpords show he did not start
> working for them until 1927. So The missing Gretna
> meteorite was passed off some where. Later I found
> out
> that a place has George Sternberg papers at
>
> http://www.glenbow.org/archhtm/sternberg.htm
>
> Research here might turn up where Grenta is. Whoever
> would like to pick up the trail is free to do so. I
> can't promise any results but Grenta and Peter
> Williams are out their. Best of succes to you all
> Rick


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Received on Fri 25 Jan 2002 01:21:07 AM PST