[meteorite-list] Titicaca meteorite-- phinally, photos

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:59:11 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <697855.68634.qm_at_web33112.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

It MUST be more than 3 or 4 tons, the crater is huge,
much larger than Jilin main mass crater, there were
pieces of sod (maybe 40 kilograms chunks of hard soil)
thrown more than 100 meters in every direction. One
piece hit the landowners home and damaged the roof.
It is simple physics to know that the mass which made
that crater must weigh many tons.
As fragile as the meteorite is, I think the pieces are
soaking up the water and rusting to hell already.
Wonderful for science study I guess.
Michael Farmer
--- PolandMET <marcinIt m at polandmet.com> wrote:

> > It is a real meteorite, the black is not fusion
> crust,
> > but rather exposed shock veins. Very interesting
> > meteorite, and not much will be found. FORGET
> about
> > getting crater material, it has been more than two
> > weeks in horrible water that people are urinating
> in
> > for fun! The meteorite is very fragile, very
> porous,
> > and will be rotted out already.
>
> Hi Mike and List
> Great that You save some material from this peruvian
> irresponsible
> individuals.
>
> If meteorite is as big as You say (1ton or larger) I
> think it will not rust
> so fast.
> Remember Bjurbole that land on sea bottom (and hit
> ice cover)? It is one of
> the most porous meteorites and all material I have
> seen is fresh. And
> ofcourse salt water is more destructive than sweet
> water. But anyway one
> thing is obvious, if they not dig it up, this will
> fall to pieces. And they
> will lose crater, meteorite and tourists money.
> But nothing can be ideal.
>
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