[meteorite-list] Ferro Meteorico Lionle Co Kansas L. 70

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 14:35:23 -0600
Message-ID: <002e01c7171a$8ef61930$952f4842_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, Matteo, Bernd, List

    After being referred to another UP address,
I couldn't get the image to display, so was deprived
of a look at the picture. I guessed on the basis of
the date and the transliteration of "lyon" and "lion."
    Now, we have meteorite heraldry: "lion couchant,"
a curious "scientific" description even for the 1890's!

Sterling K. Webb
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Ferro Meteorico Lionle Co Kansas L. 70


> Hello Matteo, Sterling and List,
>
> Last February I, too, thought and wrote this might be the ADMIRE pallasite
> because of the find date. But the picture clearly shows that this
> meteorite
> is an iron and not a pallasite. The etch pattern seems to be that of a
> IIIAB
> iron and this narrows my speculations down to the Tonganoxie IIIAB iron
> which was found in Leavenworth County in, well, 1886 :-(
>
> But, look what I've unearthed :-)
>
>
> BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Volume 3, p. 1224:
>
> "According to Snow (1891) and Bailey (1891), the mass was irregular of
> shape,
> resembling a "lion couchant" (sleeping lion), and measuring 24 x 16 x 9
> cm."
>
> So, maybe the meteorite in question is Tonganoxie and the date of find was
> erroneously given as that of the Admire pallasite.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bernd
>
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