[meteorite-list] The Mid-West, and Introducing the Wild Horse, Colorado Meteorite
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:51 2004 Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV144XX4mZYqp00019c0b_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C40C01.E1775010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Meteorite Central list, Meteorite Articles list and the Colorado Me= teorite Club (Comets), Due to the nature of this e-mail I am sending it out to a few different l= ist, so if you get more then one of these please delete one. Only one pe= rson should get three...sorry, Anne. I am always confused at what the "Mid-West" of the United States was as a= child. I lived in Kansas and only about 60 miles from the center of the = United States. Kansas has always been a farming state, we are the wheat s= tate, the breadbasket of America. The Mid-West is well known for its farm= ing and there has never been any confusion that I live in the mid-west. Y= et somehow, other states, like Ohio, were considered part of the Mid-West= Ohio is nowhere near me. Geologically, Kansas is totally flat and borin= g. No mountains, no natural lakes, no canyons, no ocean beside it's missi= ng shores, but we are not a desert. Just flat farm land for hundreds of m= iles. And this flatness extends around Kansas. You can go all the way to = Denver, Colorado till you realized you were in another state (~525 miles)= Much of Nebraska and Oklahoma is flat as well. However, if I go east, t= hen I run in Missouri....the show me state. Missouri is well know for its= Ozarks. An area of lakes, lots of hills, crystal caves and endless trees= In Kansas, we have to plant trees to keep our top soil from blowing awa= y....and you should still expect $100+ in property damage from wind every= year. The two places are nothing alike. I understand now that Ohio IS pa= rt of the 'Mid-West", because when the tern was first used, in the late 1= 700's, and most of the people trying to make life in the new country were= settled on the east coast, it was the middle west. So it is not really c= orrect for me to refer to the flat area, that extends around me...except = to the east, as the "mid-west", if I am only referring to this area. Forg= ive me for rambling on but you might also notice that this flat area coul= d have been considered meteorite hunting legend Harvey Nininger's playgro= und, as most of his field work focused here. Others have since been succe= ssful in this same region...which I will refer to from now on as the Nini= nger Region. =20 Steve Arnold (International Meteorite Broker) and Allan Shaw are two peop= le that have done well in Nininger Region during the last 10 years. Steve= Arnold, has done a great job at recovering more of old finds (Admire, Jo= hnson City and others)=E2=80=A6and being one of the first at any meteorit= e fall site. Allan Shaw and his brother have went door to door in Kansas,= and placed notices on telephone poles until their arms were sore. For th= eir efforts they have recovered a several new meteorites in and around Ka= nsas. Two of these meteorites would be the "Wichita" and the "Wild Horse"= meteorites (provisional names). The Wichita meteorite I introduced the o= ther day, today, I will introduce the Wild Horse meteorite. =20 "The "Wild Horse" (provisional name) meteorite was discovered during July= 1979 by a farmer tilling his field, one mile south and two miles west of= the town of Wild Horse in Cheyenne County, Colorado. A single mass of 13= 60.5 grams was recovered. This stone was subsequently purchased by Kansas= City area meteorite collector Allen Shaw. Allen, in conjunction with one= of his relatives, Dirk Ross, brought the stone to the University of Toky= o in Japan for classification. The meteorite was classified by Dr. Kentar= o Kanedo, stone chondrite H5, shock factor of 2 and a weathering grade of= 3. Finally the meteorite was purchased by a member of the Kansas Meteori= tes Society and currently resides in Wichita, Kansas. Weathering had dama= ged one side of the stone before it was recovered and a small portion of = the stone was lost. Multiple cracks in the meteorite helped it weather mo= re and the matrix around these cracks is visually altered. The less weath= ered sections of the meteorite show nice round chondrules that appear con= sistent in size, ~2-4 mm." Photos of the Wild Horse meteorite can be found on the following webpage. http://www.meteoritearticles.com/colwildhorse.html Further comments on Wild Horse chondrules. Visually, the chondrules matri= x of Wild Horse reminds me a lot of the African meteorite find NWA 065. T= he meteorite looks different, but both are H5's and both have what appear= to be nicer then the normal H5 chondrules. In a thin section however, NW= A 065 doe not look, chondrule rich, as it does in hand slices. I suspect = that Wild Horse meteorite thin sections will look similar. I will post so= me photos of a small NWA 065 slice I have and a thin section I got from R= on Hartman to the Meteorite Central list sometime this week. When Wild Ho= rse thin sections are completed I will post photos of it if there is inte= rest as well. I guess my comment here is, it is strange how sometimes a t= hin section of a meteorite, looks nothing like you would think it would. = Sometimes 3's look like 5's, or sometimes 5's look like 3's, visually in= hand specimens that is. I don't think Wild Horse qualifies as "chondrule= rich", but for a fairly weathered meteorite, it does have have strikingl= y nice chondrules. =20 Mark Bostick www.meteoritearticles.com www.kansasmeteoritesociety.com www.imca.cc ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C40C01.E1775010 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV> </DIV> <= DIV>Hello Meteorite Central list, Meteorite Articles list and the Colorad= o Meteorite Club (Comets),</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV= >Due to the nature of this e-mail I am sending it out to a few different = list, so if you get more then one of these please delete one. Only = one person should get three...sorry, Anne.<BR></DIV><FONT face=3DArial si= ze=3D2> <P>I am always confused at what the "Mid-West" of the United Stat= es was as a child. I lived in Kansas and only about 60 miles from the cen= ter of the United States. Kansas has always been a farming state, we are = the wheat state, the breadbasket of America. The Mid-West is well known f= or its farming and there has never been any confusion that I live in the = mid-west. Yet somehow, other states, like Ohio, were considered part of t= he Mid-West. Ohio is nowhere near me. Geologically, Kansas is totally fla= t and boring. No mountains, no natural lakes, no canyons, no ocean beside= it's missing shores, but we are not a desert. Just flat farm land f= or hundreds of miles. And this flatness extends around Kansas. You c= an go all the way to Denver, Colorado till you realized you were in = another state (~525 miles). Much of Nebraska and Oklahoma is flat as well= However, if I go east, then I run in Missouri....the show me state. Mis= souri is well know for its Ozarks. An area of lakes, lots of hills, cryst= al caves and endless trees. In Kansas, we have to plant trees to keep our= top soil from blowing away....and you should still expect $100+ in prope= rty damage from wind every year. The two places are nothing alike. I unde= rstand now that Ohio IS part of the 'Mid-West", because when the tern was= first used, in the late 1700's, and most of the people trying to make li= fe in the new country were settled on the east coast, it was the middle w= est. So it is not really correct for me to refer to the flat area, that e= xtends around me...except to the east, as the "mid-west", if I am only re= ferring to this area. Forgive me for rambling on but you might also notic= e that this flat area could have been considered meteorite hunting legend= Harvey Nininger's playground, as most of his field work focused here. Ot= hers have since been successful in this same region...which I will refer = to from now on as the Nininger Region. </P> <P>Steve Arnold (Internationa= l Meteorite Broker) and Allan Shaw are two people that have done well in = Nininger Region during the last 10 years. Steve Arnold, has done a great = job at recovering more of old finds (Admire, Johnson City and others)=E2=80= =A6and being one of the first at any meteorite fall site. Allan Shaw and = his brother have went door to door in Kansas, and placed notices on telep= hone poles until their arms were sore. For their efforts they have recove= red a several new meteorites in and around Kansas. Two of these meteorite= s would be the "Wichita" and the "Wild Horse" meteorites (provisional nam= es). The Wichita meteorite I introduced the other day, today, I will intr= oduce the Wild Horse meteorite. </P> <P>"The "Wild Horse" (provisional na= me) meteorite was discovered during July 1979 by a farmer tilling his fie= ld, one mile south and two miles west of the town of Wild Horse in Cheyen= ne County, Colorado. A single mass of 1360.5 grams was recovered. This st= one was subsequently purchased by Kansas City area meteorite collector Al= len Shaw. Allen, in conjunction with one of his relatives, Dirk Ross, bro= ught the stone to the University of Tokyo in Japan for classification. Th= e meteorite was classified by Dr. Kentaro Kanedo, stone chondrite H5, sho= ck factor of 2 and a weathering grade of 3. Finally the meteorite was pur= chased by a member of the Kansas Meteorites Society and currently resides= in Wichita, Kansas. Weathering had damaged one side of the stone before = it was recovered and a small portion of the stone was lost. Multiple crac= ks in the meteorite helped it weather more and the matrix around these cr= acks is visually altered. The less weathered sections of the meteorite sh= ow nice round chondrules that appear consistent in size, ~2-4 mm."</P> <P= >Photos of the Wild Horse meteorite can be found on the following webpage= </P> <P><A href=3D"http://www.meteoritearticles.com/colwildhorse.html">h= ttp://www.meteoritearticles.com/colwildhorse.html</A></P> <P> </P> <= P>Further comments on Wild Horse chondrules. Visually, the chondrules mat= rix of Wild Horse reminds me a lot of the African meteorite find NWA 065.= The meteorite looks different, but both are H5's and both have what appe= ar to be nicer then the normal H5 chondrules. In a thin section however, = NWA 065 doe not look, chondrule rich, as it does in hand slices. I suspec= t that Wild Horse meteorite thin sections will look similar. I will post = some photos of a small NWA 065 slice I have and a thin section I got from= Ron Hartman to the Meteorite Central list sometime this week. When Wild = Horse thin sections are completed I will post photos of it if there is in= terest as well. I guess my comment here is, it is strange how s= ometimes a thin section of a meteorite, looks nothing like you would thin= k it would. Sometimes 3's look like 5's, or sometimes 5's look like= 3's, visually in hand specimens that is. I don't think Wild Horse qualif= ies as "chondrule rich", but for a fairly weathered meteorite, it does ha= ve have strikingly nice chondrules. </P> <P>Mark Bostick</P></FONT>= <U><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff size=3D2> <P></U></FONT><A href=3D"= http://www.meteoritearticles.com/"><U><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff = size=3D2>www.meteoritearticles.com</U></FONT></A></P><U><FONT face=3DAria= l color=3D#0000ff size=3D2> <P></U></FONT><A href=3D"http://www.kansasmet= eoritesociety.com/"><U><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff size=3D2>www.ka= nsasmeteoritesociety.com</U></FONT></A></P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> <= P><A href=3D"http://www.imca.cc/">www.imca.cc</A></P> <P></FONT><FONT siz= e=3D2> </P></FONT></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_0007_01C40C01.E1775010-- Received on Wed 17 Mar 2004 10:26:09 AM PST |
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