[meteorite-list] Identification of 2 historical meteorites from SAmerica

From: Richard Montgomery <rickmont_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:47:52 -0700
Message-ID: <A2DDEE541F0040FF8130991D3E0A5444_at_bosoheadPC>

Welcome to the discussions Renaud!
If I could say that in French, I would.
Sincerely,
Richard Montgomery



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Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 4:14 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Identification of 2 historical meteorites from
SAmerica


>
> Hi List,
>
> I've been following the list for about a year now and this is my first
> post. I
> must say I've learned a lot from you even, sometimes, in the middle of an
> heated
> discussion. Meteorites definitely bring a lot of passions.
>
> I'm a geologist, French and I live in Toulouse, a busy city of SW
> France -Airbus
> main factory and office are here- but where people know how to relax.
> Toulouse
> is also where the oldest western academy was founded, the "Academy of the
> Floral
> Games" or "College of the Happy Science", in 1323!
>
> I'm pursuing some historical researches about meteorites. I've
> collaborated
> off-list with Mark Grossman (hello Mark!) on several issues -check his
> "meteorite manuscripts" blog if you haven't already. Aside from my main
> study,
> that I'll present later, I'm doing an history-focused catalogue of the
> meteorites that are kept in Toulouse in 2 collections, University and
> Museum.
> The Natural History Museum is a small but nice one and was entirely
> renovated a
> few years ago. The meteorite collection is also small but we have here
> about a
> half kg of Orgueil (located about 35 km N of Toulouse), two fist-sized
> Ausson
> samples and the unique and 99% complete 14 kg stone of Saint Sauveur (EH5)
> that
> fell a few days before the onset of WW1, in 1914, 15 km N of Toulouse:
> http://www.museum.toulouse.fr/explorer_3/les_collections_20/roches_mineraux_80/meteorites_424/chondrite_enstatite_426/index.html?lang=fr
>
> We have some trouble to identify 2 meteorites from the Museum, that's why
> I'm
> calling for help. Many of you have seen lots of meteorites and you may
> specifically recognize these stones before or have information that may
> lead to
> their identification. I give below all the information I have (be careful,
> some
> may be erroneous) and links to pictures.
>
> #1: so called "Atacama", sometimes with "Perou" attached
> 3 irons, 8,5+1,7+0,5 g
> acquired by the Museum possibly before 1842, certainly before 1866
> "Fragment of the mass kept in Vienna. Analyzed by Turner: Fe 93,40, Ni
> 6,62, Cr
> 0,54"
> http://i29.servimg.com/u/f29/10/09/49/44/atacam10.jpg
>
> #2: so called "Perou"
> 1 iron, possibly a weathered pallassite, 15 g
> acquired in 1958 or later
> http://i29.servimg.com/u/f29/10/09/49/44/parou10.jpg
>
> Hope you can help!
>
> Renaud
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Received on Sun 26 Jun 2011 08:47:52 PM PDT