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

From: Mattias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:25:05 +0200
Message-ID: <133d2d99-b2bb-a3ba-a2ec-420d3b17be78_at_web.de>

Nice pic of the newbie ...

http://cdn2.spiegel.de/images/image-1047905-galleryV9-xonf-1047905.jpg



Am 13.09.2016 um 16:10 schrieb almitt2--- via Meteorite-list:
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent using the mail.com mail app
>>
>> 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
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>>> To: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>;
> meteorite-list
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>>> 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"
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>>> 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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