[meteorite-list] Identification of 2 historical meteorites from S America

From: cdtucson at cox.net <*cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com*> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:08:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20110626200833.JORWW.997222.imail_at_fed1rmwml31> · cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com

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---- rm31 at free.fr wrote: 
> 
> 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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