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

From: Carl Agee <agee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:59:39 -0600
Message-ID: <CADYrzhq+wwFu5Yr1_jS4y0983r-tjnS9yMiP7hNH5w3mjafgPw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Jason,

No not Hoba, since it is an iron meteorite. I didn't say Norton County
is the largest "differentiated" or "nonchondritic" meteorite, but it
is for sure the largest single mass "achondrite" in the world.

Carl
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Jason Utas <meteoritekid at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe Hoba would be the largest achondrite in the world, no?
>
>
> www.fallsandfinds.com
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Carl Agee <agee at unm.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> *************************************
>> 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
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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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