[meteorite-list] Pasamonte-B

From: Bernd V. Pauli <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:45:04 +0000
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000007500000BF4_at_10.0.100.101>

Hello Mr. Agee,

On January 26, 2002, Michael Cottingham sent this to the Met.List:

PASAMONTE (B), L6 chondrite, Union County, New Mexico. Found August 2001.
Total known weight is 185 grams! My wife Wren (= Wren Cottingham) and I (= Michael Cottingham) spent a lot of time this summer hunting the Pasamonte Strewnfield looking for more of the Pasamonte eucrite. This eucrite is way too fragile to have survived on the ground since its fall but I needed to get this search out of my mind once and for all. We hiked and searched the Pasamonte strewnfield for several hundred hours and probably walked over 100 miles searching and searching. While we didn't find any of the eucrites, we did find this one little stone tucked away in an eroded area. Gary Huss at ASU did the work on this stone and it is an L6. The closest landmark was the Pasamonte Ranch - hence the name Pasamonte (b). N 36 degree 14. 562 by W 103 degree 45.515 - this is where the stone was found. I am keeping the main mass for now (40.59 grams), ASU got ~24 grams (Email dated Saturday, January 26, 2002).


Maybe Michael has further information on this L6 chondrite!

Best regards,

Bernd
Received on Fri 18 Feb 2011 12:45:04 PM PST