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

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2004_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:07:35 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <677436.18170.qm_at_web26206.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

hello

in few words this meteorite is Tonganoxie?
regards

Matteo

--- bernd.pauli at paulinet.de ha scritto:

> 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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