[meteorite-list] Paris, France CM Meteorite

From: Mexicodoug <mexicodoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:01:26 -0500
Message-ID: <8CC51CE039890BB-26BC-3C83C_at_webmail-m053.sysops.aol.com>

Bob wrote:

"What are the coordinates for the Lafayette (stone)?"

Hi Bob, they are the coordinates of the Purdue University Earth
Sciences Department where Farrington found the Lafayette nakhlite in a
drawer in the geology department (1931). No doubt you can speak for Los
Angeles. The question depends upon choosing your rigorous definition of
exactly what constitutes a locality that we can agree upon (yeah,
right).

The locality of the Lafayette oriented stone would seem not to be
known, and just to be another one of those cute reputed yarns - some
African-American guy found it supposedly somewhere, and dug it out of a
hole and then he disappeared after later giving it to Purdue. It
appears not even known for sure whether it was found in Indiana. So
that makes it a transported meteorite, right?

Best wishes
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser at yahoo.com>
To: Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 10:17 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Paris, France CM Meteorite


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
----
> 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.
>
> -----------------------------------
> Mike Bandli
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