Hello all This is my 2 pieces in my collection of Ensisheim...many nice the 0.46 piece....
http://it.geocities.com/meteoriti2000/ENSISHEIMGR.1.1.JPG http://it.geocities.com/meteoriti20002/Ensisheimgr.0.46.JPG Regards Matteo --- Zelimir Gabelica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Anne, Joseph, Charlie, Eric, Steven, Julien, > Thomas, Russ and list, > Helo > I wrote a similar message a few days ago but it > appears (at least to me) > that it was not dispatched. I am trying again today > but with much more updates. > > Many thanks to all of you who started to report the > amount of Ensisheim > meteorite that is resting in your collections. > I especially appreciate when you tell me the > source. The fact that, for > example, Eric's piece comes from the Vatican > collection and was before in > that of the Marquis de Mauroy, is a nice story and a > very interesting > filliation. > Knowing the former owners could perhaps soon result > in a huge cobweb but > this could also possibly help me in resolving many > cross cuts and try to > perhaps build one day a 510 years old family tree of > the metorite. Nothing > to loose to try. > > I was also impressed by the weight of the part slice > owned by Joseph > Murakami. 45 grams would put him close to the top of > the "hit parade" of the > meteorite lucky owners (excluding perhaps official > museums that are by no > means far on top). > But so far, as the compilation of even tiny > fragments can proove > significant for the big total, may I suggest Joseph > weighs his slice more > accurately as every further fraction of gram is > significant for us (and for > him good to know). The milligrams of Charlie's or > Steve's pieces mentioned > for their accurately weighed pieces are significant > to us as well and so is > the 0.22 g fragment reported by Julien. Small > gulches make big rivers. > > I also had in mind compiling the weights of > Ensisheim meteorites owned by > some official institutions and I'd appreciate > curtators of these institutes > or owners of the related private collections bring > me their weights, > corrections and/or additions. > I was ready to start the official contacts but, in > the meantime, Russ > Kempton provided me with an invaluable list of > repositories and private > collection weights coming from his database. > I am very grateful to him, as his list is a > compilation of several data > bases, probably recently updated. As many official > data, it reflects only > reported weights. > At that stage, it is perhaps interesting to compare > his data with those > officially published in two other serious > references, namely: > > 1) the BM. Catalog (M. Grady, Ed. 2000) and > 2) our own "Red Book" archiving the History of > Ensisheim ("ENSISHEIM, Son > Histoire � travers les Pierres", edited by the > Confr�rie St Georges des > Gardiens de la M�t�orite d'Ensisheim, Sept. 1993, > 133 pp, Table p 25 (World > Distribution of the Ensisheim Meteorite Fragments, > as compiled by J. > Schmutzer, Hamburg, Gremany), data that are probably > fragmentary and that > need updating. > > Here is the result of my preliminary comparison of > these 3 series of data: > > Place > NEMS BM > Catalog "Red Book" > > Ensisheim, Mus�e de la R�gence 54.51 kg > 55.75kg > 55.75kg > Paris, Mus. d'Hist. Nat 10.2 > kg > 9.79 kg 9.79kg > London; Nat. Hist. Mus. 911g > 911.2g 689g (!) > Berlin, Mus. Naturk., Humboldt Univ. 906g > 905g > 905g > Vienna, Naturhist. Mus. > 660g 588g > (!) 660g > Washington, U.S. Nat. Mus. 235g > 258g > (!) 458g (!!) > T�bingen, Min.-Petrogr. Inst. 220g > 316g > (!) 316g (!) > Uppsala Univ. Mus. - > - 210g (?) > Malta, Montana, Marlin Cilz Colln. - > - > 504g (?) > Tempe, Arizona State Univ. 155g > 209g > (!) 209.5g (!) > Brussels, Inst. Roy. Sci. Mus. 191g > - > 191.4g > Z�rich, ETH > 189g > - - > Modena, Min. Inst. Univ. 177g > - > 177g > Tucson, Haag Colln. > 176g > - 176g > Cambridge, Univ.(GB) 133g > - > 147g > Chicago, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 115g > 109g > 110g > New York, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 112g > 111g > 127g > G�ttingen, Min. Inst. Univ. 111g > - > 158.6g (!) > Karlsruhe Univ. > - > - 142.0g (?) > Stockholm, Naturhist. Riksmus. 80g > - > 51.0g (!) > Troyes, Mus. d'Hist. Nat. > 79.1 - > 82.0g (!) > Calcutta, Mus. Geol. Surv. India 77g > 77g > 76.9g > Copenhagen, Univ. Geol. Mus. 77g > - > 77.0g > Rome, Vatican Observatory Colln. 77g > 76g > 77g > Basel, Naturhist. Mus. > 76g > - - > Strasbourg, Min. Mus > 74g > - 73.5g > Dresden, Min. Geol. Mus. 73.4 > - 73.0g > Oxford, Univ. Mus. > 71g > - - > Kankakee, Illinois, J.Schwade Colln. 66g > - > 105.0g (!) > Buenos Aires, Asoc. H. Pampa 63g > - > - > Prague, Nat. Mus. > 51.5g > - 51.5g > Stockholm Mus. > - > - 51.0g > Fischerhude, Koblitz Colln > 42.3 > - - > Oeschgen, Beat Booz Colln. > 38.5g - > - > Paris, �cole des Mines > 38g > - 38.0g > Hamburg, Mus. Min.-Petrogr. Inst. 36.1g > - > 27.5g > Moscow, Acad. Sci. > 34g > 33.52g 33.5g > Turin Univ. > - > - 32.0g > Harvard Univ. Min. Mus. - > - 27.0 > === message truncated === ===== M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sale Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.com Collection Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.info International Meteorite Collectors Association #2140 MSN Messanger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EBAY.COM:http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
