stupid question: can the brenham fall actually be two falls. could it have
been several large stones traveling in a group, one caught by earth at one
time and the second one caught on a later pass? or is it too highly
coincidental that they both landed in kansas in the same area that makes
this impossible? thanks for indulging my ignorance. take care
susan patton
----- Original Message -----
From: "E.P. Grondine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gerald Flaherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Even more of that darned Brenham
Hi all -
It is possible that the Brenham impact is related to
the Five Nations' tradition of the Flying Heads
(Whirlwinds), but a problem here is that this
tradition is reliably (by wampum bead count) dated to
200-250 CE, while the one radio carbon date given for
Brenham is 47 BCE.
If you find any organic remains while digging up the
pieces there, please document them exactly and store
them in plastic baggies.
happy hunting,
EP
--- Gerald Flaherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Boy if this keeps up maybe I'll be able to afford a
nice slice of a Brenham
Pallasite
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 2:27 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Even more of that darned
Brenham
A rotted/"puzzle piece" new main mass? Photo on
site
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/14956160.htm
Posted on Mon, Jul. 03, 2006
KIOWA COUNTY DISCOVERY
Newfound meteorite may be among largest
BY BECCY TANNER
The Wichita Eagle
Don Stimpson thinks he has found a new meteorite
crater in a Kiowa County
field
that was thought to have been largely cleared of
meteorites.
The public can get a look at what he found Saturday
during the town of
Haviland's meteorite festival.
If testing confirms that the field is an impact
site, Stimpson said, it's a
"pretty big discovery."
"I'm as excited as can be about this new discovery,"
he said.
Stimpson and the field's owner, Paul Ross, used a
giant metal detector
recently
to locate a number of rocks that together may make
up one of the largest
meteorites of its kind.
Stimpson said the metal detector's sound was so loud
that he thought they
had
found the remains of an old, rusty culvert.
Ross took a shovel, dug down and turned over a piece
of meteorite.
"We dug and dug and brought up a 250-pound
meteorite," Stimpson said. "And
then
we looked, and there was another one there. We dug
it out and... well, wait
a
minute, there is more. We brought 1,500 pounds of
meteorite from that one
hole."
Last fall, professional meteorite-hunter Steve
Arnold found a
record-breaking
1,400-pound meteorite two miles southeast of Ross'
land.
The Brenham meteorites, named for Brenham Township
near Haviland, fell some
20,000 years ago.
They are some of the best-known and sought-after in
the world for their
crystals, which look like stained glass when cut.
They are known as pallasites and are extremely rare.
David Alexander, a Wichita State University physics
professor whose
specialty is
astronomy, said that if Stimpson's find proves to be
a single meteorite, it
would be the largest pallasite ever found.
One way to tell whether it is an impact site,
Alexander said, is if the
bedrock
below is shattered.
Stimpson said the bottom of the crater has a thick
layer of rust about 20
feet
in diameter.
"We do not know how far it extends," he said. "I'll
keep working on the site
as
long as I can and submit a scientific paper with my
data when we are
finished."
______________________________________________
Meteorite-list mailing list
Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
______________________________________________
Meteorite-list mailing list
Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
______________________________________________
Meteorite-list mailing list
Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
______________________________________________
Meteorite-list mailing list
Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
