[meteorite-list] RICHLAND

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:02:47 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <202058.87167.qm_at_web33108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I think Sergey's explanation is most likely, that the
Richland mass was the transported piece, since it only
weighed 12 kilograms.
I don't recall seeing any signs of human damage (other
than many plow cuts) but this was a very hard iron. I
like good mystery, and this is an interesting one.
Unfortunately we do not know the exact location of the
find, so there is not much more that could be done to
search the farm for more pieces.
Michael Farmer
--- dean bessey <deanbessey at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Jeff,
> > Now comes the question of how a large piece of a
> > meteorite came to rest 178 miles (297 km) from the
> > first piece.
> > Does anyone have an explanation as to how or why
> it
> > could/would be transported so far back then, and
> > buried in a farmers field?
> >
> I suspect that the natives could have done it. The
> question is why (And not bother to take care of at
> it
> afterwards).
> It might have been to eroded to tell (And there may
> no
> longer be photos or memories of the uncut mass) but
> I
> wonder if there was evidence on the original mass
> that
> some pieces were crudely chipped of.
> If there was pieces chipped of, a plausable
> explanation of why the indians took so much trouble
> to
> move it is that they were making iron tools with it
> (A
> semi common occurance in the pre iron world).
> Then after some years of this chipping, neglect, war
> or other reasons may have caused it to be abandoned
> and slowly be buried by natural means.
> Of course that is onely one possible explanation and
> there is no real evidence for it but would be a
> reason
> why it was moved. It could well be another fall.
> Just an idea
> Cheers
> DEAN
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