[meteorite-list] New Barwell acquisition

From: Graham Ensor <graham.ensor_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 00:56:09 +0100
Message-ID: <CAJkn+kb5UUC2STJ33Xnp3JgBQ=0DwLgnLp2Z4gn24URLP7CiPw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Great piece Martin...that's two nice historic chunks we have managed
to save from the saw in one year....and they don't appear very
often...what's happening to the other similar piece?

Graham

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Martin Goff <msgmeteorites at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just wanted to show off my latest acquisition, a 93.54 gram specimen
> of the famous Barwell meteorite. Barwell fell on 24th December 1965
> and was witnessed by many people and is affectionately known as the
> Christmas meteorite. It is the second largest of the UK meteorites
> after the Wiltshire stone (Lake House) This particular stone was found
> on the 6th January by Jean Ferguson (nee McKellar) who at the time was
> the Keeper of Geology at the Leicester Museum and it has been in her
> possession ever since. I am especially proud to have such a nice
> specimen of this historic UK meteoite in my collection :-) Photos can
> be seen at the link below:
>
> (https://www.flickr.com/photos/94515040 at N03/sets/72157635382072632/)
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
> --
> Martin Goff
> www.msg-meteorites.co.uk
> IMCA #3387
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Received on Wed 04 Sep 2013 07:56:09 PM PDT