[meteorite-list] Re-2: Titicaca meteorite-- phinally, photos

From: Mr EMan <mstreman53_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:12:01 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <779896.73387.qm_at_web51012.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Hello Listoids and Listoid Emeritus Bernd
--- bernd.pauli at paulinet.de wrote:
<<Yes, no chance under such circumstances. The Kirin
 (Jilin) meteorite main mass was found at a depth of
almost six meters and this was only possible because
the ground (loessal clay) was still almost frozen ...
quite unlike this waterhole filled with filthy water>>


Recovered meteorites are no stranger to water...
Norton County and the Carancas fragments remind me so
much of the very friable meteorite Bjurb?le, which
fell in Finland in 1899. As reported below, it was
extracted from 7 meters of mud through a foot of sea
ice by divers in the days before heated SCUBA suits
... Amazing!

"Bjurb?le is the biggest meteorite fall or find in
Finland so far. This meteorite was broken in many
pieces when it hits the sea ice of gulf of Finland
after widely observed bright fireball and sonic booms.
Pieces were recovered from 8 meters deep (0.4 meter
ice 0.5 meter water and 7 meters mud) by divers.
Meteorite made 4 meter wide hole in the ice and mud
was spread over 24 x 33 m wide area around the hole.
This meteorite is famous by its big condrules and
because it is very fragile."
...Jarmo Moilanen's website
<http://www.somerikko.net/old/geo/met/mbjurb_e.htm>

Elton
Received on Thu 04 Oct 2007 02:12:01 AM PDT