[meteorite-list] Weston

From: lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu <lebofsky_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:39:12 -0700 (MST)
Message-ID: <1910.71.226.60.25.1187494752.squirrel_at_timber.lpl.arizona.edu>

M. Robson gave a talk at MetSoc meeting here in Tucson on Thursday. There
is something less than 50 pounds accounted for (I think). I am trying to
get him to write an article for Meteorite, but it probably would not be
until the February issue.

Larry

On Sat, August 18, 2007 6:05 pm, Sterling K. Webb wrote:
> Hi, Darren, List,
>
>
> The NHM Catalogue of Meteorites says:
>
>
> "After the appearance of a fireball (traveling from
> N to S), and detonations, a shower of several stones
> fell over an area about 10 miles in length. The total weight was estimated
> at 330 lb .(149.7 kg) and the largest stone, which broke into fragments,
> at 200 lb. (90.7 kg), B. Silliman & J.L. Kingsley (1809, 1869)."
>
>
> It further lists 3220.4 grams (3.22 kg) in fourteen
> institutional collections. Does this mean that 330 lb. were collected of
> which the location of only 50 lbs. is known? Known by whom? The biggest
> piece listed by the NHM Catalogue is 1200 grams at ASU in Tempe.
>
> I assume your source is Yale's Peabody Museum:
> http://www.yale.edu/peabody/collections/met/met_weston.html
> which has the 16,571 gram piece (36.5 lbs.). Apparently, the NHM does not
> recognize Yale University as an institution, or the Peabody as a
> collection, or something similarly twitty. Or perhaps Yale is not "known"
> to the NHM.
>
> The 7 lbs. that are listed by the NHM, subtracted from the
> remaining 14 lbs., leaves 7 lbs., or less than 3200 grams, in the hands of
> private collectors, assuming this kind of arithmetic is correct, which it
> likely isn't. The key word is "known." The article says 50 lbs. are
> "known." Known by whom? Known in
> what time frame? 40 years ago? In a world where the British Museum does not
> know about Yale University, what does "known" mean?
>
>
> With an old fall, there may be (are) collected pieces whose
> present owner does not know what they are. Almost two centuries for pieces
> to diffuse through collections allows for a lot of spread. And there were
> 330 lbs. to start with (Yale says 350 lbs.). It's
> still on the planet... somewhere.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 6:38 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Weston
>
>
>
> Any estimates of how much of Weston is in private collections? I read
> one source saying only around 50 lbs are known, around 36 pounds in one
> mass. So if
> accurate that would obviously leave only around 14 pounds for other
> museums and private collectors.
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