[meteorite-list] Paris, France CM Meteorite

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:17:17 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <935331.40013.qm_at_web51706.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

There was a question raised on this thread whether there are other classified meteorites that don't even have a home country for a locality?

The answer is, "Yes!"
By definition that is how the 9 "Unknowns" are defined (see Carl's previous post which lists the 9 other "Unknowns).

Now to clear-up some other mis-information: You'll notice that Lafayette and Los Angeles are not on this "list of 9", so they are unrelated to a discussion about "unknown localities". I can't speak for Lafayette, but I sure can speak for Los Angeles. I can tell you that the problem with LA started 10 years ago. It all started with a simple mis-wording in the Met. Bulletin description:
"The specimens may have been collected ~20 years ago in the Mojave Desert",
should have been written as:
"... were collected in the California Mojave Desert possibly as many as 20 years ago."

So, for the benefit of those who are recent to this List, or in the past have been mis-informed, or are just overly impressionable to innuendo, rumors and the continual yammering on this List, allow me to make this clear one more time:

I, Bob Verish, am the finder of the Los Angeles Meteorite and there is no question as to its locality - it was found in the California Mojave Desert.

P.S. - Here's a good trivia question:
What are the coordinates for the Lafayette (stone)?

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[meteorite-list] Paris, France CM Meteorite
cdtucson at cox.net cdtucson at cox.net
Tue Dec 22 15:35:09 EST 2009

Mike,
Plus these other nine listed right on the Paris info page.
Name Status Year Place Type Mass MetBull GoogleEarth
??Map all ? Notes
9 records found for meteorites from (unknown) with names that contain "*"
(click on a name for more information; click in header to sort)
Asarco Mexicana Official (unknown) Iron, IIIAB
Nova 006 Provisional (unknown) Unknown 70 g
Nova 007 Provisional (unknown) Unknown 12 g
Nova 008 Official <1972 (unknown) L6 4.2 kg 93
Nova 009 Official <1972 (unknown) H4 7.3 kg 93
Paneth's Iron ** Official 1873 (unknown) Iron, IIIE 150 kg 53
Paris ** Official 2001 (unknown) CM 1370 g 97?
Rio Bunge Official (unknown) L 11 g
Smithsonian Iron Official 1881 (unknown) Iron, IIAB 3.51 kg
Carl

-- 
Carl or Debbie Esparza
Meteoritemax
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> On 12/22/09 11:50 AM, "Mike Bandli" <fuzzfoot at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> An interesting read for the Paris CM meteorite:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/y9s6wge
>
> Interestingly, I believe it is the first meteorite officially 
> classified with no locality.
>
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> Mike Bandli

Received on Tue 22 Dec 2009 11:17:17 PM PST