[meteorite-list] Ad Rare fall for sale/Tree smasher

From: Darryl Pitt <darryl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:35:29 -0400
Message-ID: <5E42481D-7183-43AE-B109-774B22796C79_at_dof3.com>

Mike's anecdote is far from anecdotal....

I was in Bandung Indonesia obtaining samples of Banten and other
Indonesian exotics when the museum curator attempted to remove what
was at least 95% of the single mass of Meester-Cornelis from what
appeared to be a tropical fish tank filled with a translucent, amber-
colored oil.

While M-C appeared completely solid, we were shocked when his hand
literally passed through the meteorite and cloudy wisps of material
ever-so-slowly began to settle to the bottom of the tank.

Lesson #798: do not keep stoney meteorites in a petroleum distillate
for....tens(?) of years.

best/ d


michael brecker's pilgrimage on npr
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10459940



On May 29, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Mike Jensen wrote:

> Hi all
> I am offering some small pieces of a really unusual and older fall. It
> is Meester-Cornelis which fell June 2, 1915 in Indonesia. This is an
> exceptionally hard to get fall because the main mass has been
> lost...well sort of. I was told that the main mass was stored in a
> museum in Indonesia in a jar filled with oil. When it was removed the
> meteorite turned to sludge. These are not pieces of sludge but instead
> whole fragments. So the total repository weight for this one is less
> than 500 grams.
> I also found a fascinating story about its fall and subsequent
> recovery. Please read the story I have included below.
>
> Ref
> http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/metind.html
>
> <My translation from Marco Langbroek's text from above page>
>
> In the early morning hours of 2 June 1915 around 6.30 AM local time,
> in the village Duren Sawit, the sound of detonations were accompanied
> by the fall of a 24.75 kg stone. A witness who after hearing the
> detonations, a Mr Tajim and his son Siama, went outside and found a
> meteorite only 11 meters away from their house. They observed that the
> meteorite had demolished the branch of a tree and excavated a 1 meter
> deep and 35 cm wide crater. The crater location became, for very short
> time, a place of pilgrimage where the local population brought
> sacrifices to the meteorite, until the meteorite was confiscated the
> next day by an authority from Meester-Cornelis. The sound of
> detonations has been heard for a distance of 12 km. The angular
> character of the stone shows that there must be more fragments to
> be found.
> The suggestion in the 'Catalogue of Meteorites' (M. Grady 2000) that
> the fall had possibly taken place on 2 August is incorrect. According
> to L.J.C. Van Es (1918), who personally visited the fall location on 3
> June 1915, the June 2 date is correct. The meteorite is a stone
> meteorite, chondrite from the H group with petrologic grade 5
> ("ordinary" chondrite with high iron quality and high degree of
> metamorphism).
>
> REF
> M. Grady (2000), Catalogue of Meteorites (5th edition), Cambridge
> University Press.
>
> L.J.C. Van Es (1918), Jaarboek van het Mijnwezen in Nederlandsch
> Oost-Indi? 47, 21-40.
>
> I have several crumbs all in gel caps.
> One fragment lots 0.015g, 0.032g, 0.037g
> Two fragment lots 0.017g, 0.029
> Multi fragment lots) 0.033g, 0.043g, 0.068g
> $1500 per gram.
> For now I am going to limit your purchases to two lots per individual.
> If you want more let me know and I will let you know if there are any
> left over after the sale is finished.
> Mike
>
> --
> Mike Jensen
> Jensen Meteorites
> 16730 E Ada PL
> Aurora, CO 80017-3137
> 303-337-4361
> IMCA 4264
> website: www.jensenmeteorites.com
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