[meteorite-list] Wethersfield Meteorites was "Question"

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Aug 29 16:08:17 2006
Message-ID: <C119CB13.2DD65%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Thanks, Paul,
        Great to have the info, even though it is disappointing.
        Best wishes, Michael

on 8/29/06 7:11 AM, Paul at bristolia_at_yahoo.com wrote:

> Michael L Blood asked:
>
> "In 1971 a meteorite struck a hous in
> Wethersfield,Conn. As if that weren't
> enough, ANOTHER meteorite struck
> another house in that small town in 1982!
> I'm stoked. However, I have NEVER
> seen either of these falls available for
> sale. Has ANYONE on the list seen either/
> both of these falls available for sale?
> Anyone have any?"
>
> The main mass of the 1982 fall is in the Peabody
> Museum of Natural History as noted in The Wethersfield
> Meteorite, Meteorites and Planetary Science, Peabody
> Museum of Natural History at:
>
> http://www.yale.edu/peabody/collections/met/index.html
>
> There was only 52 grams of fragments, which broke off of
> the 2.756 kg main mass. I suspect that these were consumed
> in the studies of the meteorite mentioned in the above
> article.
>
> The 1971 meteorite is owned by the Division of Meteorites
> of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. From what I
> found, there was only a main mass of 350 grams, which the
> Smithsonian now has.
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul H.
>
>
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Received on Tue 29 Aug 2006 01:44:35 PM PDT