[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk main mass raised from Lake Chebarkul

From: Carl Agee <agee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:22:36 -0600
Message-ID: <CADYrzhq5=xNtV_Wkkm8F7m84Dy89d=hVMmH7K0t3vM-ku-=--g_at_mail.gmail.com>

Norton County probably didn't make immediate worldwide news like
Chelyabinsk, because there weren't any dash cams recording it, and
there were only about 44,000 television sets in the USA at the time --
the internet not even dreamed of yet. Times have changed!

Carl
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Carl Agee <agee at unm.edu> wrote:
> Yep! Thanks for reminding us Jeff. Norton County weighs in at ~1000
> kg. It fell on Kansas sod (which we still have pieces of) not pulled
> from the bottom of a lake months later. Furthermore, it is a rare
> achondrite type (aubrite), which makes it the largest achondrite in
> the world! Available for your viewing pleasure and open to the public
> at Northrop Hall, Main Campus, University of New Mexico.
>
> Enjoy!: http://epswww.unm.edu/meteoritemuseum/virtualtour/norton.htm
>
> Carl Agee
> *************************************
> Carl B. Agee
> Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics
> Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
> MSC03 2050
> University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque NM 87131-1126
>
> Tel: (505) 750-7172
> Fax: (505) 277-3577
> Email: agee at unm.edu
> http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Jeff Grossman <jngrossman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Among stones, it's going to be hard to beat Jilin, with its 1770 kg main
>> mass. There are photos of it in the metbull database:
>> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/index.php?code=12171. And let's not forget
>> the 1000-ish kg Norton County and the 900-ish kg Kunya-Urgench monsters.
>>
>> There is a 1745 kg Sikhote-Alin iron in Moscow. I'm not sure if this is
>> the largest of those.
>>
>> So, at a measly 600 kg, this Chelyabinsk stone doesn't come close to being
>> the champion (and it isn't a "fresh fall" any more to boot!).
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> On 10/16/2013 9:02 AM, Robin Whittle wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>
>>> Thanks for posting this! The Google translation is:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uralinform.ru%2Fnews%2Fsociety%2F186095-chelyabinskii-meteorit-podnyali-iz-glubin-chebarkulya%2F&act=url
>>>
>>> As you mentioned in an off-list email, here is another photo:
>>>
>>> http://image.newsru.com/pict/id/large/1602563_20131016155716.gif
>>>
>>> from which I found the main story with a long video:
>>>
>>> http://www.newsru.com/russia/16oct2013/bigstone.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsru.com%2Frussia%2F16oct2013%2Fbigstone.html&act=url
>>>
>>> In recorded history, is there any other fresh fall which has produced a
>>> single meteorite with this mass - 570 pounds but later in the above
>>> story 570 kg?
>>>
>>>
>>> - Robin
>>>
>>>
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