[meteorite-list] Shergotty History

From: ken newton <magellon_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Nov 5 06:51:34 2005
Message-ID: <436C9CC0.2030803_at_earthlink.net>

Matteo and all,
Kevin Kichinka has a chapter devoted to Nakhla in his book "The Art of
Collecting Meteorites"
http://www.theartofcollectingmeteorites.com/. Kevin is also interviewed
in "Meteorite People" in the October "MeteoriteTimes Links" (
http://www.meteoritetimes.com/)
KICHINKA K. (1998) El Nakhla, First Meteorite of Egypt - Part 1
(Meteorite! 4-2, 1998, pp. 08-12).
http://www.meteoritestudies.com/protected_el_nakh1.htm
KICHINKA K. (1998) El Nakhla, First Meteorite of Egypt - Part 2
(Meteorite! 4-3, 1998, pp. 14-17).
http://www.meteoritestudies.com/protected_el_nakh2.htm
best,
ken
IMCA #9632
http://www.meteoritecollectors.org/
http://home.earthlink.net/~magellon/mepage.html

M come Meteorite Meteorites wrote:

>Hello
>
>thanks for the help....on Nakhla you have informations
>on the fall? In the work of Kicinga I not have find
>many...
>Matteo
>
>--- bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de ha scritto:
>
>
>
>>Hello Matteo and List,
>>
>>"where is possible find a complete Shergotty history
>>of
>> the fall? In the web I have find to much few
>>material."
>>
>>This will be difficult because information about the
>>fall and
>>find circumstances is rather scanty. Here is what I
>>can offer:
>>
>>(Translation German => English, B. Pauli):
>>
>>The Shergotty and Gopalpur Meteorites (excerpt)
>>
>>By G. Tschermak, Member of his Majesty's Academy of
>>Sciences
>>
>>(with 4 tables and 2 woodcuts)
>>
>>(Presented at the meeting of 22 February 1872.)
>>
>>In 1867, the k.k. Mineralogical Museum acquired some
>>fragments of the aforesaid
>>meteoric stones through the kindness of Dr. T.
>>Oldham in Calcutta. Later the Indian
>>Museum in Calcutta kindly sent three photographic
>>pictures of the second meteorite
>>in its original state and a plaster cast as well. I
>>am very pleased to extend my
>>appreciative thanks to the honorable senders now
>>that the mineralogical examination
>>has been successfully carried through with rewarding
>>results.
>>
>>Shergotty
>>
>>This meteoric stone fell on 25th August 1865 at 9
>>o'clock a.m. near Shergotty close to
>>Behar in Eastern India. It has been reported that
>>the weather was calm and the sky
>>cloudy when a loud sonic boom was heard and then a
>>stone fell and buried itself knee-
>>deep in the ground. When the stone was recovered
>>[from the impact hole], it was broken
>>in two pieces.
>>
>>There is no information on the accompanying
>>circumstances. The fragment in the Vienna
>>Museum is a somewhat roundish, rather angular edge
>>of the stone and thus displays a
>>fusion crust on three sides, the remaining parts
>>showing a grainy texture. The crust is
>>pitch-black and glossy, resembling the crusts of the
>>meteorites Stannern, Juvinas, Jonzac.
>>
>>The melt droplets are prominent in many places and
>>partly seem to be arranged parallel to
>>each other. In some places the substance of the
>>crust has penetrated the interior a little.
>>The appearance of the crust makes it likely that the
>>stone belongs to the group designated
>>as eucrite(s) by G. Rose. This group, as is widely
>>known, comprises only a few members.
>>
>>The broken surface is distinctly grainy, the grains
>>being almost of equal size, the broken planes
>>displaying a yellow-gray color. The coherence is
>>minor. The stone easily crumbles. Melting the
>>stone results in a black, glossy glass.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Bernd
>>
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