[meteorite-list] 1937 Newspaper Article, Canada Meteorit

From: Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:08:21 2004
Message-ID: <3D77D467.7BA8BA03_at_lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Mark wrote:

> Washington. - A stone from the sky, found on the ice near
> Great Bear Lake in northern Canada, has been added to the
> Smithsonian Institution collection of meteorites. An Indian
> picked it up, wondering at its peculiar form and the fact
> that it was lying there on top of the ice, and brought it
> to the nearest mission.


Hello Mark and List,

Thank you for your continuing efforts with regard to historical,
yesteryear newspaper articles. I can only encourage you to keep
them coming. Why? The entry in the 5th edition of the Catalogue
o n l y states that one stone was found by a native American on
the ice of Great Bear Lake, whose original weight is not known,
and the main mass of which has been lost :-(

> It consists of the mineral known as Chladnite, in a form different
> from that recorded for any previously known meteorite.

Very interesting! Chladnite in an H6 chondrite?! Chladnite
is nowadays called enstatite: MgSiO3. Any comments?


Best wishes,

Bernd
Received on Thu 05 Sep 2002 06:02:15 PM PDT