FW: Re: [meteorite-list] NPA 01-03-1821 Possible Lixna Meteorite Fallarticle

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Apr 22 14:40:45 2005
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Hello list,

Martin's e-mail didn't make it to the list, so I am forwarding it below at
Martin request.

Nice specimen Martin.

Clear Skies,
Mark

From: Martin Horejsi <martinh_at_isu.edu>
To: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_msn.com>
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NPA 01-03-1821 Possible Lixna Meteorite
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Hi All,

Here are a couple pics of my Lixna specimen. I am told that the old cards
indicate that this piece of Lixna came from the nearby university, and
likely where the analysis described in the article was done.

http://challenge.isu.edu/lixna/lixna.html

Mark, regarding the dates: Lixna fell on July 12, 1820; the St. Petersburg
date is Sept. 18 (1820?), and the Paper date is January 3, 1821. Is my
assumption correct that the Republic Compiler running a translated story
from the St. Petersburg, Russia newspaper?

Name History:
  1703-1914 Saint-Petersburg
  1914-1924 Petrograd
  1924-1991 Leningrad
  1991-present Saint-Petersburg

Impressive if news of a meteorite relatively small meteorite fall in Russia
traveled so quickly, and was even thought newsworthy in the fledgling USA.

Happy viewing (again),

Martin



On Apr 22, 2005, at 9:57 AM, MARK BOSTICK wrote:

>Paper: Republican Compiler
>City: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
>Date: Wednesday, January 3, 1821
>Page 4 (of 4)
>
>St. Petersburg Sept. 18.
>
> A meteoric stone weighing 40lbs. fell from the air during a violent
>thunder storm, at six o'clock in the evening, on the 12th of July, in the
>Village of Listen, in the circle of Dunaburg, and the government of
>Witebsk. It penetrated a foot and an half in the ground, whence it was dug
>by the peasants, and has been chemically analyzed by Dr. Eichler. A
>magnetic needle was pretty quickly attracted, as well in an horizontal as
>in a vertical direction, by all points of its surface, but it did not at
>all attract iron filings.
>
>(end)
>
>The article may refer to the Lixna meteorite, although the weight of Lixna
>(in the Catalogue of Meteorites and A to Z: Second Edition) appears to be
>different.
>
>A to Z: Second Edition has:
>
>Lizna H4 vnd; Dvinsk, Latvia; 1820 July 12 1730hrs;* 1 _at_ 5.213kg.
>
>(Anyone has a solid and outlined typed keys, please e-mail them to me. I
>could also use other keys like the short +/-, and other related meteorite
>related keys. Keys is likely the wrong word to use, but I can't think of
>the correct or better).
>
>Clear Skies,
>Mark Bostick
>Wichita, Kansas
>http://www.meteoritearticles.com
>http://www.kansasmeteoritesociety.com
>http://www.imca.cc
>
>http://stores.ebay.com/meteoritearticles
>
>PDF copy of this article, and most I post (and about 1/2 of those on my
>website), is available upon e-mail request.
>
>The NPA in the subject line, stands for Newspaper Article. The old list
>server allowed us a search feature the current does not, so I guess this is
>more for quick reference and shortening the subject line now.
>
>
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