[meteorite-list] Bizarre Fall Date in Met Bulletin

From: Peter Scherff <peterscherff_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:46:34 -0500
Message-ID: <03ca01c97927$bda3e4d0$38ebae70$_at_com>

Yes, the date is 300 B.C.

It is probably entered the way it is to aid in chronological sorting. But
that is just my guess.

peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Gilmer [mailto:michael_w_gilmer at yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:41 PM
To: Peter Scherff
Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Bizarre Fall Date in Met Bulletin

Hi Peter,

So I take it the -300 means 300BC?

I wonder why they just didn't put that in the bulletin? I figured
that's what it meant, but I wasn't 100% sure.

Thanks and clear skies,

MikeG


.........................................................
Michael Gilmer (Louisiana, USA)
Member of the Meteoritical Society.
Member of the Bayou Region Stargazers Network.
Websites - http://www.galactic-stone.com and http://www.glassthrower.com
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--- On Sat, 1/17/09, Peter Scherff <peterscherff at rcn.com> wrote:

> From: Peter Scherff <peterscherff at rcn.com>
> Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Bizarre Fall Date in Met Bulletin
> To: michael_w_gilmer at yahoo.com
> Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 10:29 PM
> Hi,
>
> According to what I have read the date is correct.
> "22 rounded
> bead-like objects of strongly oxidized meteoritic iron were
> found in an
> Indian burial mound. The material was worked by Indians of
> the Hopewellian
> culture into a number of ornamental beads, R.M.Grogan,
> American Antiquity,
> 1948, 13, p.302"
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On
> Behalf Of Michael
> Gilmer
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:18 PM
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Bizarre Fall Date in Met Bulletin
>
> According to the online Met Bulletin, Havana Illinois
> (Iron, IAB complex),
> was found in the year "-300".
>
> I am currently researching falls in Illinois and Florida,
> and I ran
> across this goofy typographical error. Or is there some
> other reason
> for this oddball date?
>
> http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php?code=11857
>
> Regards and clear skies,
>
> MikeG
>
>
> .........................................................
> Michael Gilmer (Louisiana, USA)
> Member of the Meteoritical Society.
> Member of the Bayou Region Stargazers Network.
> Websites - http://www.galactic-stone.com and
> http://www.glassthrower.com
> ..........................................................
>
>
>
>
>
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