[meteorite-list] RFSPOD - Sep 18, 2010 - THe Elbogen Iron

From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: 18 Sep 2010 19:08:45 UT
Message-ID: <DIIE.000000C400005055_at_paulinet.de>

Mike B. wonders:

"It is also interesting that NHMV's label suggests that they do
not recognize Elbogen (ca. 1400) as the oldest iron fall. Why?"

 http://www.rocksfromspace.org/September_18_2010.html

Hello Mike and List,

They do not recognize Elbogen as the oldest iron fall because it is
*not* a witnessed fall. In his trilogy, Vagn Buchwald only wrote:

"the exterior shape of the mass certainly suggests a well-preserved fall.
..Elbogen was probably plowed up sometime around the year 1400 and
soon became associated with the simultaneous death (killing?) of one of
the hated burgraves."

Reference:

BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Volume 2, pp. 557-560.

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Cheers,

Bernd
Received on Sat 18 Sep 2010 03:08:45 PM PDT