[meteorite-list] Named masses: Ausson and Clarac

From: rm31 at free.fr <rm31_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:34:49 +0200
Message-ID: <1317155689.4e8233694a067_at_imp.free.fr>

Hi Jeff,

I have a French one for your list.

Ausson meteorite (L5) includes two stones fallen at two different places.
Please refer to the detailed explanations and documents that Mark Grossman
published on his blog:
http://meteoritemanuscripts.blogspot.com/2010/11/recently-discovered-letter-sheds-light.html

Witnessed fireball + explosion, S of Toulouse, SW France, in 1858.
In CLARAC (43.098,0.626), a stone of about 10 kg fell through the edge of a
thatched roof.
In AUSSON (43.083,0.594), 3 km away, a stone weighting around 40 kg was found
buried more than a meter deep in the ground.
Ref.: Petit, Sur l'aerolithe du 9 decembre. C.R.A.S., n?47, p1053-1055, 1858

There are 3 samples of this meteorite held in collections (University + Museum)
in Toulouse: 2 big ones from Ausson (860 and 1100 g), and a small one from
Clarac (18 g).

Renaud


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Grossman
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 5:12 PM
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] Named masses

All,

I'm compiling a list of all meteorites that have named masses. The two
well-known examples are Cape York and Campo del Cielo, which each have
many large pieces that are known by informal names, e.g., Ahnighito (CY)
and El Patio (CdC).

How many others can people come up with? This is a crowdsourcing
exercise for the MetBull database, where I'd like to keep track of such
names. I already have a long list of synonyms, but most of these are
not the names of masses; they are alternate names and spellings for the
meteorite itself (if you'd like to scan them to see if you can spot any
mass names, here is the long list:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/MetBullSynonyms.php).

What I need are:

Meteorite name; mass name; weight; source of information; optional
descriptive text

Thanks to all who can help!

Jeff

p.s. I think I have most of the CdC and CY names already compiled.
Received on Tue 27 Sep 2011 04:34:49 PM PDT