--- Rick Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Their is a great research engine done by Bill Peck. > I > used the word "Lost" and came up with Plymouth > Wooster > etc. Wooster is right in my backyard. A man by the > name of Peter Williams found the meteorite at > Wooster > took it to the mint at Philly. The mint took a few > ounces to sample. Peter split and he has not been > seen > since. So out their somewhere since deceased is > Peter > Williams and his meteorite. This research came up by > going thru Yale. Bill helps you get in the door > .Bill's engine is at > > http://meteoritemaps.com/search/vocab-srch.html > > Bill's egine told me along with another book of the > LOST THIRD SECTION OF GRANTA See Results > > You entered: gretna > > gretna > In 1912 the gretna meteorite was found in Phillips > County, Kansas, USA. It is a Stone meteorite, > classified as a L5, Olivine�hypersthene chondrite. > A stone, broken into three pieces, was found 12 > miles > N. of gretna. Two of the pieces weigh 36kg and > 22.7kg > and fit together, indicating the loss of a third > fragment, probably about 23kg. Described and > figured, > H.H. Nininger, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 1936, 39, > p.172. Mentioned, A.D. Nininger, Pop. Astron., > Northfield, Minnesota, 1937, 45, p.449 (M.A. 7�62). > Olivine Fa25, B. Mason, Geochimica et Cosmochimica > Acta, 1963, 27, p.1011. May be synonymous with > Phillips County (stone) (q.v.). > Kansas > USA > > A search on the net turned this up at > > http://www.lasr.net/leisure/kansas/phillips/body.html > > Gretna - In 1915, 12 miles north, fossil hunter > George > Sternberg discovered a meteorite weighing 80 lb.. > Gretna was originally named Dana. > > The missing third section of Gretna!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > George Sternberg I found out was a great and fossil > hunter go to > > http://www.fhsu.edu/sternberg/family.html > > Later I found out by contacting Fort Hay State > University that their recpords show he did not start > working for them until 1927. So The missing Gretna > meteorite was passed off some where. Later I found > out > that a place has George Sternberg papers at > > http://www.glenbow.org/archhtm/sternberg.htm > > Research here might turn up where Grenta is. Whoever > would like to pick up the trail is free to do so. I > can't promise any results but Grenta and Peter > Williams are out their. Best of succes to you all > Rick __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
