[meteorite-list] Greensburg Pallasite

From: almitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Dec 25 16:20:44 2004
Message-ID: <41CDDA3C.C894691C_at_kconline.com>

Hi Anne and all,

Silent list like silent night.

Greensburg is really a Brenham pallasite and yes properly classified and studied. No
it isn't the largest pallasite in the world. I don't think that Esquel is either as
Huckitta is pretty large and I think larger than Esquel.

Just a while back we were discussing the largest pallasites so should be in the
archives by now. I may be wrong since I didn't crack open any books and I am going
from memory. All my best!

--AL Mitterling

Impactika_at_aol.com wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> Since the List is very quiet today, here is a question a friend of mine sent
> to me:
> ---------------
> but I'm curious, what do you know about the ("fabled"?) Greensburg, KS,
> meteorite, supposedly a pallasite? I see (from the internet) that the town claims
> this as the "world's largest pallasite" (they usually mis-spell it pallisite),
> though reliable sources rather say that Esquiel, Argentina (owned by Robert
> Haag) has that honor. I don't have as a large a library of meteorite books as
> I might, and my copy of your catalog is in my office (I of, course, am at
> home, it being Christmas), and I haven't really been able to find anything on the
> web reliable about the Greensburg KS meteorite, other than the promotional
> material on web sites about the town, about how you can see this meteorite on
> display in their local museum. Has it really been studied and catalogued, and is
> it really a pallasite?
Received on Sat 25 Dec 2004 04:23:09 PM PST