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

From: Mike Bandli <fuzzfoot_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:01:50 -0700
Message-ID: <5962AEF3644D40FFBC8EEAB3EEEFFC88_at_Bandli1>

Dear Bernd,

Thanks for the extract. I wonder why most catalogues, Grady, MetBull, etc.
still list it as a fall. Perhaps it was the story of it being chained down
to prevent it from flying away the way it came. There also seems to be
discrepancies in "The History of Meteoritics and Key Meteorite Collections,"
where it is listed as both by different authors. One would think that by now
the official status of such a historic piece would be sorted out. I'll have
to read the old reports and see where the fall status stems from.
Interesting!

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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



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