[meteorite-list] POP QUIZ ANSWER

From: Shawn Alan <photophlow_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:56:15 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <977734.37647.qm_at_web35403.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hello Listers
?
I hop :) .... hope everyone had a great Easter...... I had peeps and pop corn and gummy worms, great combo.
?
I would like to announce the win and answer for the POP QUIZ today.
?
Question
?
True or False
?
The current classification scheme for meteorites had its
beginnings in the 1900s with G. Rose?s classification of the
meteorite collection at the University Museum of Berlin.
?
False
?
Correct answer is 1860's
?
I would like to congratulate Carl .... Meteoritemax. You will be receiving a Saratov fragment that fell in 1918 in Russia.
?
And while we are on the topic of classifications I found this early form of classification please take a look down below.
?
De Dr?e, 1803: The First Meteorite Classification
?
De Dr?e took a great interest in meteorites and
immediately began to work out a classification of them based
chiefly on their materials, as reported by Howard and
Vauquelin, and the circumstances of their falls. He
distinguished the following four classes (de Dr?e 1803b:410):
?
Class I: Stones consisting of similar materials that fell in
serene weather without thunderstorms: Salles, Ensisheim,
Barbotan, Benares, Wold Cottage.
?
Class II: Stones of the same materials as class I but which
fell from enflamed clouds with lightning flashes with or
without detonations: Siena, Tabor.
?
Class III: Masses mainly of malleable iron, of which the
only observed fall occurred at Agram in Croatia after a
fireball and an explosion followed by rumbling sounds.
?
Class IV: All masses for which the circumstances of fall
are not verified and their compositions fall outside those of
the first three classes or are uncertain: his list of about 20
included the irons found in Siberia, Argentina, and Senegal;
stones from observed falls including Luc?, Eichst?dt, and
Portugal, and about a dozen historical accounts taken mainly
from Chladni.

Source http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1996M%26PS...31..545M
?
Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633
eBaystore
http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html
Received on Mon 25 Apr 2011 01:56:15 PM PDT