[meteorite-list] Dalgaranga Mesosiderite

From: Matteo Chinellato <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:00:07 2004
Message-ID: <20020718174109.87644.qmail_at_web10302.mail.yahoo.com>

hello all

my Dalgaranga ;-)
http://it.geocities.com/meteoriti20002/DALGARANGAGR.1.510.JPG

Matteo

--- Bernd Pauli HD
<bernd.pauli_at_lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>
> > Australian mesosiderite individual named
> Dalgaranga, and was
> > reliably informed by the curator that "this is the
> only metallic
> > specimen of Dalgaranga in existence", with all the
> remaining 10 kg
> > being shale and completely oxidised mesosiderite.
> If that's the case,
> > I'm well pleased to be the present owner, but does
> anyone know if
> > that's so, or of any other metallic Dalgaranga
> specimens out there?
>
> Hello Rob and List,
>
> It's fairly consistent with what the Catalogue says.
> One specimen of
> 40 g was preserved in the Simpson collection. During
> a search in 1960,
> not in but around the crater, 207 fragments were
> recovered, total
> weight 1.1 kg. The largest weighed 57g and about
> half of the 1.1 kg
> were oxidised irons and half mesosiderite. Within
> the crater 280
> fragments, totalling about 20 lb were collected, all
> of which proved
> to be highly oxidised mesosiderites.
>
> So your specimen may be the one wrighing 40
> grams or the other one weighing 57 grams.
>
> > I've linked through to some pictures below
> > that I thought you might like to see.
>
> Congratulations! Beautiful, rare specimen!
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernd
>
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Received on Thu 18 Jul 2002 01:41:09 PM PDT