[meteorite-list] The World's Second Largest Meteorite

From: almitt2 at localnet.com <almitt2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 10:10:18 -0400
Message-ID: <20160913101018.qwn0c322veqkgk4o_at_webmail.localnet.com>

  Hi List,

  All sells of big iron meteorites of 28,000 kilos and over are now
  suspended!

  Ya I know, I don't like that cute joke anymore either but had to
  "weigh" in.

  --AL Mitterling

  Mitterling Meteorites

   Quoting Peter Scherff via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>:

> Hi,
>
> My reading of the article, albeit through Google translate, talks
about El
> Chaco being reweighed and its weight being reported at? 28,840
kilos. The
> newly discovered meteorite weighs 30,800 kilos.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meteorite-list
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On
> Behalf Of Bigjohn Shea via Meteorite-list
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 6:05 AM
> To: metlist
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The World's Second Largest Meteorite
>
>
https://steemit.com/gancedo/_at_merlinesm/meteorite-record-the-gancedo-weighs-3
> 0-8-tons-and-is-the-fourth-largest-in-the-world
>
> This article, with some great photos, lists it at 4th with 30,800kg
as the
> official measure.
>
> Weighing the big ones like this and compairing them to others has
always
> been confusing it seems.
>
> 2nd or 4th is kkind of irrelevant in my book.? Still amazing...
>
> Cheers,
> John A. Shea, MD
> IMCA 3295
>
>
>
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>
> On 9/13/16 at 2:01 AM, MexicoDoug via Meteorite-list wrote:
>
>> Just a journalistic failure to fact check...? The original El
Chaco is
> said to be 37.4 MT (37,400 kg).? They need to weigh this "Gancedo"
more
> accurately perhaps, but it is over 14,500 pounds more to get from
the
> Gancedo 30.8 MT to the El Chaco 37.4 MT:
>>
>> see the recovery of the find here:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7OGZpVbI6I
>> Best
>> Doug
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rob Wesel via Meteorite-list
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> To: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>;
meteorite-list
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Tue, Sep 13, 2016 1:41 am
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The World's Second Largest Meteorite
>>
>> I have seen this in the news a few times today. Amazing find but
I'm
>> confused.
>>
>> This new find is 34 tons.
>>
>> El Chaco weighs in at 37 tons and Hoba has them beat at 66.
>>
>> I missing a metric conversion in reference to El Chaco?
>>
>> Referencing the book
>> The Campo Del Cielo Meteorites, Vol. II, Chaco Guillermo Faivovich
and
>> Nicolas Goldberg
>> 2012
>> Page 45
>>
>>
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>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list"
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 9:52 PM
>> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] The World's Second Largest Meteorite
>>
>> > List,
>> >
>> > A 34-ton iron has been found
>> > in the Campo del Cielo region
>> > of Argentina:
>> >
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=332776
>> >
>> > The meteorite was found on
>> > Sept. 10 in the town of Gancedo,
>> > 1,085 km north of Buenos Aires,
>> > Mario Vesconi, president of the
>> > Astronomy Association of Chaco,
>> > told the daily newspaper Clarin."
>> >
>> > "While we hoped for weights above
>> > what had been registered, we did
>> > not expect it to exceed 30 [metric]
>> > tons," Vesconi noted, adding that
>> > "the size and weight [about 68,000
>> > pounds] surprised us."
>> >
>> > "The meteorite will be weighed
>> > again to ensure an accurate
>> > measurement. The largest
>> > meteorite ever found is Hoba,
>> > weighing 66 tons, in Namibia."
>> >
>> > See also:
>> >
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/sep/12/30-ton-meteor-discovere
>> > d-in-arg
>> > entina-at-ancient-m/
>> >
>> >
>> > Sterling K. Webb
>> >
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