[meteorite-list] Meteorites in limestone

From: Martin <Martin_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:19 2004
Message-ID: <001b01c388c7$2ba970a0$04ee50d9_at_9y6y40j>

Hi,

there were found 55 fossile meteorites in limestone in five different
quarries in South Sweden,
more than 40 of them in the Thorsberg quarry in Kinnekulle.
The quarries a distributed in an area of 300 miles and the layers in that
limstone formed in a span of 2 million years 480 million years ago, so that
the meteorites don't stem from a single event,
but surprisingly they are all of the same type. L-chondrites.
They are quite well preserved, I have a picture here and chondrules are
easily visible.

See a report here:
http://www.rice.edu/projects/reno/Newsrel/2003/20030508_meteorite.shtml

Martin
Received on Thu 02 Oct 2003 05:25:50 AM PDT