[meteorite-list] Pojoaque Pallisite

From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:54:42 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <8CEF469D0C8881B-2118-23F80_at_webmail-d020.sysops.aol.com>

Hi Listers,

Paired - quite likely - It has a much more interesting history than to
be lumped as a synonym and IMO value as a named iron in its own right:

This particular iron showed a lot of evidence of wear from human
handling and Nininger supported Mera's suggestion that it was carried
in a medicine pouch in Pojoaque, which makes a triangle geographically,
roughly, with Santa Fe, Glorieta, Mountain locality and Pojoaque
pueble. According to the circumstances of the fine, it was found
inside some old pottery during excavations at the Pueblo, i.e.,
protected, and exhibited beautiful flow lines and notable bluish fresh
fusion crust, indicating it was a reasonable possibility that whoever
found it saw it fall. As it was found during excavations, it raises
the possibility of using this to date the Glorieta Mountain fall.

It would be nice to know where this meteorite is now. Did it make it
to New Mexico's collection? Nininger, in 1931, saw it in Santa Fe,
specifically in the "Department of Anthropology", where Mera may have
been working. But someone else needs to sleuth a bit further from here
because I sure don't know where it is now, and it would be great to see
it in its present condition ;-), as it was cut up a bit because
Nininger and others used it to argue that Glorieta Mountain wasn't a
siderite, but a sidero-pallasite combination as well as consolidate
some of the names Bernd lists ... I think the paper was 1940.

Definitely a specimen with a very special, if not sacred, history ...

Kindest wishes
Doug




-----Original Message-----
From: Bernd V. Pauli <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sun, Apr 29, 2012 5:03 pm
Subject: [meteorite-list] Pojoaque Pallisite


Hello Jeff, Mike, David and List,

David wrote: "It is indeed the synonym for Glorieta"

... and only one out of several others:

Albuquerque
Canoncito
Glorieta
Pojoaque
Rio Arriba
Santa Fe
Santa Fe County
Trinity County

Cheers,

Bernd


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