[meteorite-list] Pallasite ID

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon May 1 20:07:53 2006
Message-ID: <20060501190758.19703.qmail_at_web33115.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Brenham, plain and simple. note the rounded crystals,
large metal, poor quality of the crystals. Brenham was
the only widely available pallasite at that time.
Mike Farmer

--- Jim Strope <nwa482_at_comcast.net> wrote:

> Good Morning Listees.........
>
> Anyone want to take a stab at identifying the
> meteorite in the following
> photos. The owner said that it was purchased from
> Ward's Scientific in the
> late 1960s and identified as an Odessa.
>
>
http://www.catchafallingstar.com/images/apallasitea.jpg
>
>
http://www.catchafallingstar.com/images/apallasiteb.jpg
>
>
http://www.catchafallingstar.com/images/apallasitec.jpg
>
> Thanks in advance...........
>
> Jim Strope
> 421 Fourth Street
> Glen Dale, WV 26038
>
> http://www.catchafallingstar.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Notkin" <geoking_at_notkin.net>
> To: "Meteorite List"
> <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:41 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: Treasure Hunters
>
>
> Dear Listees:
>
> Greetings comrades.
>
> Just returned late last night from our
> Brenham/Glorieta documentary
> shoot: sunburned, bruised, scratched, and battered,
> but what a great
> experience. Our Travel Channel host, the glamorous
> Becky Worley, jumped
> right into the action and was digging holes, riding
> ATVs, swinging
> metal detectors, and generally working her way
> through an intense
> meteorite-hunting apprenticeship in 48 hours flat.
> She's a knockout.
>
> Thanks to Mark and Ruben for posting their photos of
> our expedition.
> I'll post my own as soon as I can. Mark Bostick and
> his bro came all
> the way down from Wichita for the dig on Thursday.
> It was good to see
> some friendly faces and I appreciate the nice web
> presentation he put
> together.
>
>
> In other news: this Besednice character is a real
> corker isn't he? He's
> gotta be just a fake ID, or a troll right? With a
> name like that I'm
> putting my money on Jim Strope or Dave Andrews
> having some fun with us.
>
> Thaddeus Besednice posted:
>
> > Oh great - another glorification of looting (relic
> hunting)!
>
> A relic is generally assumed to be a product of, or
> an item
> specifically associated with, human culture and
> history (i.e. an
> ancient religious relic), so it doesn't really work
> with a meteorite.
> Also, how can you be looting something when its
> owner (the landowner)
> has expressly asked you to excavate it from his own
> property? Answer me
> that, Mr. Moldavite.
>
>
> > Do Any of the Brenham pits get at least a cursory
> record of their possible
> > prehistoric components?
>
> They're not pits, silly. The Brenhams are completely
> buried, way, way
> underground, a bit like your conscience. An "impact
> pit" is a modest
> surface indentation made by a meteorite which is too
> small (or
> traveling too slowly) to produce an actual crater. I
> suggest reading
> Mr. Norton's "Rocks from Space" where you can learn
> some other helpful
> meteorite terms, and then use them at parties.
>
> FYI, Steve meticulously records the depth,
> orientation, GPS
> coordinates, and other detailed info for every
> single find. A
> scientific study (in association with a prominent
> geologist on the
> List) is underway to determine the true age of the
> fall. I can't wait!
> IMO the Brenham fall took place more recently than
> many of us think.
>
> In addition, valuable and detailed strewnfield data
> is being collected
> with each new find. The area around each excavated
> Brenham is carefully
> checked for meteorite fragments, as well as the
> flattened, fossilized
> carcass of an ancient Kansas plains camel, big sabre
> tooth kitty, or --
> if we're super lucky -- Thaddeus Besednice himself.
> Steve is REALLY
> hoping that directly beneath one of the big irons he
> will discover a
> wafer-thin buffalo mummy. Imagine how much that
> would go for on eBay!
>
>
> > I'm justifiably and unassailably an enemy of the
> irresponsible,
> > counterscientific, hobbyist attitudes glorified by
> certain people and
> > uncritically tolerated by others (accomplices).
>
> Good lord that's fabulous. A sentence worthy of
> Thomas Pynchon! Yes,
> that would be me, one of the accomplices. I know
> you're just jealous
> you big Moldavite.
>
>
> > No, we don't need degrees to collect lumps of
> asteroids, planets, and
> > comets, but a bit of respect for irreplacable
> biological taxa and cultural
> > residues would make us more than drooling,
> avaricious freebooters.
>
> Unfortunately, most of the eminent scientists with
> degrees are too busy
> with classifications, new papers, and important lab
> work to go
> scurrying around in the mud with us, but we're happy
> to do our part. I
> do agree with you though -- think of all the
> "irreplacable biological
> taxa" that resides at the bottom of a hole in a
> field in a Kansas farm!
> If you want to come out and study it, I'll be happy
> to hand you a
> shovel.
>
> Anyway, just to contradict you one more time, Steve
> has had recognized
> academics up to Brenham to inspect the
> work-in-progress, notably the
> excellent Dr. Art Ehlmann of the Oscar Monnig
> Gallery, TCU.
>
> I know this guy Besednice is just a gag by someone,
> but replied for the
> sake of some List members who might think this clown
> is a real person.
>
> Good joke though : )
>
>
> Yours in freebooting asteroids,
>
> Geoff Notkin
> (Arnold accomplice and part-time henchman)
>
> www.aerolite.org
> Rockin' Tucson
>
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