[meteorite-list] Weston

From: Jeff Grossman <jgrossman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:40:27 -0400
Message-ID: <OF605D66B1.3B589378-ON8525733C.0040357B_at_usgs.gov>

Robson also sleuthed out the most likely coordinates for the Weston
fall centroid, which differ from those given in the Catalogue and
MetBase. I have entered these in the MetBull Database, if anybody
wants to see them:

http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/index.php?code=24249

Jeff

At 11:39 PM 8/18/2007, lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu wrote:
>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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