[meteorite-list] Largest known intact stone meteorite? Observation!

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:54:56 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <312124.59023.qm_at_web53110.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Dear List,
  Something occurred to me this afternoon after answering Melanie`s question. The Jilin and Norton County were both from this past century. Just think about the potential of all of the "big rock" still laying out in rural areas waiting to be found. Anyone have funds? Dirk Ross...Tokyo



--- On Tue, 9/15/09, Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Largest known intact stone meteorite????? (first post/testing)
> To: ensoramanda at ntlworld.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, "Melanie Matthews" <spacewoman2775 at hotmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 1:37 AM
> Hi, Graham, Melanie, List,
>
> ???Actually the photo is of the excavation
> of the largest
> Jilin fragment. Back during the Carancas discussion of
> whether the "hole" there was a crater or an impact pit,
> I looked up all the "landings" of heavy pieces for some
> comparisons, including Jilin. The Jilin "hole" is not a
> crater. Jilin is not even an impact pit. Jilin is a hole
> 6 meters deep and less than 2 meters wide with the
> long rectangular stone embedded nose-down below
> the bottom of the hole. They had to dig out a crater
> to get to the stone.
>
> ???Here's the top of the original hole
> (large picture):
> http://www.planetarium.montreal.qc.ca/Information/Expo_Meteorites/Agrandissements/fiche_agrandissement_63_a.html
>
> ???Here's the excavation afterwards (large
> picture):
> http://www.planetarium.montreal.qc.ca/Information/Expo_Meteorites/Agrandissements/fiche_agrandissement_64_a.html
>
> ???You can see it's a vertical shaft, not a
> pit, not a
> crater in the classic width/depth ratio of 3:1.
>
> ???If a stone does not fragment, it will be
> a "ground
> penetrator."
>
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>;
> "Melanie Matthews" <spacewoman2775 at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 5:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Largest known intact stone
> meteorite????? (first post/testing)
>
>
> > Hi Melanie,
> >
> > Welcome to the list. As some others have said Jilin is
> the one. I always wanted to have a piece of it and recently
> managed to acquire a 1650g fragment, funnily enough only a
> couple of days after returning from a trip to China. You
> will find some great photos on the web of the huge hole it
> produced when it fell.
> >
> > http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.planetarium.montreal.qc.ca/Information/Expo_Meteorites/Images/fiches/small/image_jilin2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.planetarium.montreal.qc.ca/Information/Expo_Meteorites/Vedettes/jilin_a.html&usg=__6d495tTGXt87SvvmRTVHUJH7rsw=&h=177&w=180&sz=89&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=IDWm2wLb7ORp0M:&tbnh=99&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJilin%2Bmeteorite%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
> >
> > Sorry for the long link paste.
> >
> > If you want to see some pictures of my fragment off
> list let me know.
> >
> > Graham Ensor UK
> >
> > ---- Melanie Matthews <spacewoman2775 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello list.
> >>
> >> What is the largest intact stony meteorite ever
> found (whether an entire stone or a piece off of it), to
> date?
> >>
> >> - Mel (those who know me - please welcome me to
> the list... I just joined a few days ago :-) )
> >> IMCA #2975
> >>
> >>
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