[meteorite-list] Ensisheim 2004

From: MexicoDoug_at_aol.com <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jun 20 17:32:54 2004
Message-ID: <1c0.1ab30999.2e075c7c_at_aol.com>

Thanks for the almost too short and superb report, Bernd,,,, errr, Sir
Monsieur Bernd, Honored Honorary Member of the St. George's Confraternity of the
Guardians of the Ensisheim Meteorite ! Perhaps you will now enjoy refering to
your Pauline as Milady Pauline:), Also, sorry you couldn't have all your cake
and eat it too :(, While the commerce and superb meteorites sound delicious as
Tucson, the added emphasis on food leaves us less fortunate non-attendees,
salivating with a painful pit in the stomach!


>>My Pauline and I are back from the Ensisheim 2004 Meteorite
>>Show where I received the honor of now being an honorary member
>>of the St. George's Confraternity of the Guardians of the
>>Ensisheim Meteorite....

>>...with its weird clasts was really there to make you salivate!
>>Would have love to buy a slice, but ... well, you can't have it all!

>>...French reporters of a local Alsatian radio station who had
>>found a victim they could bombard with a lot of meteorite-related
>>and meteorite-collecting-related questions in French.

(Well, It could be worse, the locals could have stoned you with you know
what. Will see if I can pick up a mexican baguette here while you enjoy the
Kougelhoff).

Sabrosos saludos, Doug

Hello List,

My Pauline and I are back from the Ensisheim 2004 Meteorite Show where
I received the honor of now being an honorary member of the St. George's
Confraternity of the Guardians of the Ensisheim Meteorite.

It was great fun meeting all those meteorite people in person. Let me
enumerate
some (not all of them because there were too many) and let me say "thank you"
to Zelimir who saw to it that "things went smoothly". There was Peter Marmet
(from whom I purchased my little Ensisheim slice that he had once got from
Anne
Black - Anne just in case you wonder where it now resides :-) I think it is a
"must"
for an honary member of the "Ensisheim Confraternity" to own at least little
slice
of this historical fall from 1492 - in my case a modest 0.773 grams but
beautiful!

There were Alain Carion, Bruno and Carine, Moritz Karl and Sergei Vasiliew
with
his wife, Philippe Thomas and his wife L?a, Stefan Ralew, Michel Franco,
Peter
K?mmel, Fr?d?ric and Christophe, Erich and Silvia Haiderer, Siegfried
Haberer,
Norbert Classen,Christian Anger, Hanno Strufe, Vincent Jacques, Serge,
Pierre-
Marie and his team ...

There was Jean-Claude Lefebvre whose wife shared and exchanged with my
Pauline some of their grueling experiences with husbands that have the "bug"
:-)

And, of course, there were many others - no ill will if I did not mention all
of them.

The pepper steaks my Pauline and I had at the "La Couronne" were delicious as
was the beer "la pression" they served. We had a very spacious room there
with
four beds ... but I still can't figure out what for ;-))

Meteorites, ... yes for every purse. NWA's, historical falls, lunar, martian
(Bruno
placed one in my hand that made my mouth water but I knew there was no money
for such a martian now as I was firmly determined to get a slice from the
Ensisheim
LL6. Sikhote-Alin was well represented - both big chunks as well as small
pieces
(shrapnel, oriented, regmaglypted) and I was lucky enough to grab an oriented
74g
piece with flow lines, lipping, and a frothy rear side from "kachalin at
mail.ru" and I
got it cheap!

Peter K?mmel had several exquisite German historical falls and finds, Moritz
Karl
and Sergei Vasiliev offered several choice specimens that you wished you
owned,
Alain Carion had some little Ensisheim specimens plus quite a few other falls
and
finds of interest, among these several Tafassasset slices. I didn't need one
as I had
already got mine from Anne some months ago. There was also a Monsieur Alain
Weissler who offered thin sections - among them two Tafassasset thin
sections,
one of which I acquired (can't wait to let my eyes wander over its weird
texture :-)

As for our Libyan Desert Glass thread: Monsieur Weissler also had two LDG
thin
sections and I could not resist buying one of them with interesting
inclusions that
were once thought to be "biogenic". Will also have to look and marvel at this
one.

Pierre-Marie's team had a beautiful little Brahin that changed owners when I
saw
that one half of it was translucent olivine and the other half was metal that
had been
etched and displayed a delicate Widmanst?tten pattern.

I also bought a Jalu thin section from M. Weissler so that all I could do was
go back
to Peter K?mmel and buy his 13.5-gram choice Jalu slice, because what good is
a
thin section when there is no meteorite specimen :-)

Siegfried Haberer's lunars and his 25-kg Dhofar beauty (see METEORITE, Nov.
2002,
Volume 8, No.4) were clearly eye-catchers! Well, and you should have seen
that large
Saint-S?verin slice that Peter Marmet was offering. Boy, what a beauty, what
a sight!

No need to tell you that both Philippe Thomas and Michel Franco had several
superb
and extremely fresh-looking Hot Desert meteorites. Michel showed me a slice
of one
that will keep scientists busy for quite some time. Something unheard of,
something
never seen before! It was a thrill to hold it in my hands! Thank you Michel!

If you really wanted some excellent but affordable NWA's at down-to-earth
prices,
then Stefan was the right person to go and look. Mesosiderites, rumurutiites,
and
so much more.

It was also very nice to say hello to Marcin from Poland and wander over his
NWA's
and his Morasko irons - of course also had Zaklodzie, Pultusk and other
meteorites
that he offered. Marcin, all the best for an "enjoyable" 11-hour trip back to
Poland!

Fr?d?ric and Christophe's desert finds were a feast for the eyes and their
Tanezrouft
057 C4 ANOM with its weird clasts was really there to make you salivate!
Would have
love to buy a slice, but ... well, you can't have it all! Fr?d?ric and
Christophe are very
friendly, good-humored people, I can tell you!

Serge was offering a wide variety of Dhofar meteorites and thin sections
(among them
several lunars) and that reprint of the Sikhote-Alin fall that he has also
put up on EBay
several times recently.

>From Jean-Luc Parodi I got a beautiful LL5 (S2, W2) slice with beautiful
fresh fusion
crust and a large metallic (FeNi + troilite) inclusion that reminds me of
Lake Constance.
It will be published in one of the upcoming Bulletins and will probably be a
Tanezrouft.

There is so much more I could tell you but this post is already too lengthy.
What a pity
there were no American list members this year. Oops, I forgot! I think Nick
Gessler
was there but somehow I did not find a moment to talk to him or to at least
say hello.
Maybe next time!

Just when I wanted to leave the show on Saturday evening to go back to "La
Couronne",
because my Pauline and I felt the need to enjoy a delicious "c?te de boeuf",
Michel Franco
stopped me and "handed me over" to 2 friendly-looking French reporters of a
local Alsatian
radio station who had found a victim they could bombard with a lot of
meteorite-related and
meteorite-collecting-related questions in French.

Oh boy, Ensisheim was quite an exciting adventure. Thank
you all who made it happen and thank you all for listening.

Best wishes,

"Confr?re" Bernd :-)



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