[meteorite-list] Donations to Museums

From: Martin Goff <msgmeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:38:09 +0000
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What a nice gesture Shawn, congrats :-) As a collector with one of my
focuses being UK and Irish meteorites i fully appreciate the rarity
and historical value of High Possil! Peter, you must now be very happy
to have a piece in the National Museums Scotland collection :-)

Cheers

Martin

On 25/01/2013, Peter Davidson <P.Davidson at nms.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear List Members
>
> I would like to bring to the attention of the list, news of a wonderful
> piece of generosity. Mr Shawn A Rinoehl (who signs off as Shawn Alan) of
> Brooklyn, NYC has very kindly donated a fragment of the High Possil
> meteorite which fell near Glasgow, Scotland in April 1804. This piece of L6
> Chondrite may not have the status of a Martian or Carbonaceous Chondrite,
> but to me it is of vital importance. This now means that we have in our
> collection, fragments of three of the four known Scottish meteorites. The
> only one missing now is the Perth fall (LL5 Ordinary Chondrite, May 1830).
>
> I have of course thanked Shawn off list and asked his permission to make my
> gratitude and his generosity much more public through the MetList.
>
> Thank you Shawn
>
> Have a great weekend everyone
>
> Peter Davidson
> Curator of Minerals
>
> National Museums Collection Centre
> 242 West Granton Road
> Edinburgh
> EH5 1JA
> 00 44 131 247 4283
> p.davidson at nms.ac.uk
>
>
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>
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