[meteorite-list] AD: USA Falls - Norton County & Petersburg

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:03:11 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <686207.20286.qm_at_web51701.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Hello again List,

I have some auctions on eBay that are ending soon:

<http://shop.ebay.com/bolide*chaser/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340>

These can be considered historical USA FALLS:

The PETERSBURG Meteorite. This Achondrite - Polymict Eucrite type, Fell to Earth on August 5th, 1855 at 15:30hrs, in Lincoln County, Tennessee, USA.
Petersburg, partslice (0.12 grams)
<http://tinyurl.com/35hen2a>

This ultra-rare, historical USA Fall has great provenance: from Russ Kempton at NEMS via the Michael Cottingham Meteorite Collection.

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Norton County
- Classified as AUBRITE -
- (fragmental impact breccia) -
- Fell across the Kansas-Nebraska state line - in 1948 - TKW >1.1MT
- Impact BRECCIA fragment 7.92grams

<http://tinyurl.com/NortonCounty>
This specimen appears in the UNM Collection Catalog as "Specimen number = N.15965 ":
<http://epswww1.unm.edu/metcat/sample_output.php?samplename=NORTON%20COUNTY>

Check-out the images on the auction site.
All of the above specimens are now listed on eBay:
<http://shop.ebay.com/bolide*chaser/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340>

Hope you enjoy the images,
Bob V.
Received on Fri 06 Aug 2010 05:03:11 PM PDT