[meteorite-list] Struga, Macedonia

From: Dieter Heinlein <dieter-heinlein_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:11:30 +0100
Message-ID: <D3049B323E604DA18EC650ABB2EC4C9A_at_AMD3500>

Hello Carsten, Rob, Larry and Anne,

I got the offer of Mr. Ljupco as well and have investigated the case.

Obviously there was an authentic meteorite fall on Sep 27, 1972 at
about 6:00 local time near Struga, Macedonia. Several pieces of a
chondrite have been collected from an impact pit. One large piece
with fusion crust, weighing 2.7 kg went to the Skopje Museum.
Other pieces from the impact site have been taken by private parties.

The investigation of the material and the article mentioned by Carsten
were carried out using material from a private owner. Curiously this
specimen looked much more weathered than the Museum piece...?
For unknown reasons it was not possible or allowed to investigate
the 2.7 kg main mass from the Skopje Museum in 2009, when the
article by Biljana Minceva-Sukarova was written and published.
That was the reason, why the Nom Com of the Meteorite Bulletin
did not accept the meteorite fall so far.

Actually the Macedonian scientists wanted to analyze the obviously
fresh and genuine Struga meteorite piece. But they were informed,
that the 2.7 kg main mass was stolen from the Skopje Museum
more than a year ago. So chances are bad, that this fall will get the
status "official" soon.

Kind regards

Dieter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matson, Robert D." <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 9:13 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Struga, Macedonia


> Hi Carsten,
>
> Slow to respond to your list query of a couple weeks ago -- I don't
> recall seeing any reply to it:
>
> "Does anyone have some informations about a possible Meteorite Fall
> (eye witnessed) in Struga, 1972? I already found some informations
> in the web, there is also a PDF about chemical analyses. But it
> seems this Meteorite has never been oficially published in the
> Meteoritical Bulletin? What could be the reason for this?"
>
> Subsequent to your post, I received an (unsolicited) offer to buy
> a purported sample of this fall from a Mr. Ljupco from Macedonia --
> I suspect you might have gotten a similar email which is what led
> to your post on the Met-List. (Anyone else out there also
> contacted?)
>
> The images that Mr. Ljupco provided of his father's find were not
> obviously meteoritic to me (especially for a supposedly contemporary
> H-chondrite fall), but they didn't look clearly terrestrial either.
> But the fact that Struga does not appear in the Meteoritical Bulletin,
> and only turns up in one web link (the PDF you mention) raises a red
> flag, IMO, as to the fall's validity, let alone the provenance of
> samples supposedly associated with it.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
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