[meteorite-list] Ensisheim Meteorite show - brief account
From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jun 18 18:21:41 2006 Message-ID: <015501c69325$8cd2dc20$6402a8c0_at_Dell> Thanks for taking the time to share Svend. I'll idle away in daydreams of splendid diogenites by virtue of your splendid descriptions. Jerry Flaherty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr. Svend Buhl" <info_at_niger-meteorite-recon.de> To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 6:05 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim Meteorite show - brief account > Good evening folks, > > inquiring minds wanted to know so I take the liberty to offer a brief > account on what was going on on in Ensisheim. > > We arrived late friday evening just in time to witness the culmination of > a red wine taste celebrated by a mixed US-Moroccan-German table in the > back yard of La Couronne hotel. Mike Farmer, Mohammed, Dave Schulz, Andi > Gren, Harald Strehlik and Jim Strope shared a number of adventures jumping > from Tokio to Tucson to Las Vegas to the Hamburger Reeperbahn and to some > other bizarre coordinates that slipped through my memory. > > The next day presented a concentration of cosmic matter of unseen density > in the historic town hall. People rushed in the exhibition hall like > sharks in a feeding frenzy. For some dealers the show paid off within the > first hours. The competion was massive. > > About five or six tables backed up by the Erfoud, Midelt and Zagora > commection were completely focussed on NWAs, most of them uncut. This > meant a lot of work for Marcin who had set up his saw in the yard. As I > stepped by, a croud gathered around the lucky buyer of a freshly cut NWA > that suspiciously resembled a diogenite. > > Classic locations were presented in lower quantities, at least that was my > impression. Almost no Sikhotes, just here and there a few, very few > Gibeons, only a handful of Tazas. Campos of course were the exception. > Hans Koser, the king of Campos, had about fifty on his table, beside some > nice Uruacu individuals representing his recent finds. As a surprise he > brought two large slices of the new Brazil meteorite Santa Vitoria do > Palmar (provisionary) with him. That material was offered for 5 EUR /gm. > > Beside the planetary and achondritic rarities displayed on the tables of > Mike Farmer, Marcin, Martin Altmann, Stefan Ralew (who was honoured and > accepted as a new guardian of the Ensisheim meteorite)and the other usual > suspects, the tables of Hanno Strufe and J. Nauber need to be mentioned. > J. Nauber displayed a magnificent >2 gm fragment of Chasigny and an > exceptionally well prepared 12gm slice of a striking lunar regolith > breccia. > > But the killer was a 32 gm slice of a newly classified diogenite that was > unlike any other I have seen. The yellowish slice looked like an assembly > of humongous centimeter sized pyroxene crystals embedded in a Thai curry > colored matrix spiced with distinct green olivine sparks. Another piece of > exceptional beauty was a yet unclassified meteorite displayed by Andi > Gren, that has chances to enter the Bulletin as the next bencubinite. The > creme de la creme of rare historic US-localities could be found on the > table of Anne Black, I'am convinced her asortment represented at least one > third of the Texas and New Mexico localities. > > Compared to the recent years only few tables were set up by Russian > dealers. Surprisingly and in contrast to the general opinion regarding the > recent Oman issues there is still fresh material coming out of Oman. Of > exceptional quality were some heavily shocked and very fresh looking > Eucrites from the Dhofar region. The jet black crust just coated by a fine > layer of caliche twenty potatoe sized individuals lay on a table - a > beautiful sight. > > The 1st day ended with the traditional festival, powered by the > Meteor-brewery and the local accordion orchestra. Just in time after a > beaaitiful and hot sunshiny day a deluvian drove everybody into the large > tents where the party continued until the early morning. While one half of > the accordion orchestra continued to play under the portico a group of > four players seperated into the tent and started to battle their > opponents. It was the trumpets of Jericho against the trumpets of the Last > Judgement. The sound was so tremendous, Manfred Dannapfel was scared the > olivines may fall out of his newly acquired Fukang pallasite. > > There is much more to tell and those actors I did not mention may forgive > me, as this account is just an impression and by no means representative. > I'am sure others will share there stories and pictures as well. > > best regards > > Svend > > www.niger-meteorite-recon.de > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Sun 18 Jun 2006 06:21:30 PM PDT |
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