[meteorite-list] Meteorites claimed by Kings

From: Steve Schoner <schoner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 00:49:39 GMT
Message-ID: <20100606.184939.7335.1_at_webmail10.dca.untd.com>

". One of the most famous of meteorites fell in Phrygia and was worshipped there for many generations under the name of Cybele, the mother of the gods. After an oracle had declared that possession of the stone would secure to the Romans a continual increase of prosperity, it was demanded by them from King Attalus about the year 204 B.C., and taken with great ceremony to Rome. It is described by the historian as "a black stone, in the figure of a cone, circular below and ending in an apex above." Plutarch relates the fall of a stone in Thrace about 470 B.C., during the time of Pindar, and according to Pliny the stone was still preserved in his day, 500 years afterwards. Both Diana of the Ephesians "which fell down from Jupiter," and the image of Venus at Cyprus, appear to have been conical or pyramidal stones. One of the holiest relics of the Moslems is preserved at Mecca, built into a corner of the Kaaba"

And the Angra Dos Reis achondrite was given the the King of Brazil, King Carlos.

Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470

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