Let the race begin, Midwest Meteorites - http://www.meteorman.org/
M come Meteorite Meteorites wrote:
Hello all
I have see the photo and is many strange this pieces
not have a fresh crust - type Bensour or Hadeja - if
is fall few months ago, is many similar to normaly NWA
finds in desert. When exit the report of the
Met.Society? Is available a isotope text? Sorry for my
suspect but in this months the moroccan persons and
similar in the zone they are wanting to they sell some
meteorites like falls of recent. However I have asked
a piece of 10 gr. to observe better. Regards
Matteo
--- Adam Hupe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear List Members,
We Would like to introduce a new fall.
New meteorite Thuathe, Lesotho fell on July 21, 2002
Incredibly this meteorite fell on the same day as
Kilabo. About 27 kilograms is projected to be the
Total Known Weight with about 19 kilograms recovered
so far. Stones varying in size from 2 grams up to
the main mass weight of 2,387 grams have been
recovered. It was reported to the Meteoritical
Society and the official name of Thuathe has been
assigned. It is an H4 ordinary chondrite with a not
so ordinary story. We will report more eye witness
accounts as they come in.
Malineo Mantsoe of IIa Sofonia describes her
experience: When the loud noise occurred overhead,
she ran to the back of her dwelling expecting to see
a thunderstorm, but there was none. She came to the
front, just in time to hear wheeee-bang as a stone
fell into her cooking area just in front of her,
cracking one of her water carriers. No villager
could have thrown a stone so fast in daylight, and
it must have been a truly powerful thokolost to have
done such a thing in broad daylight! Fortunately she
was prepared for such occasions, because she had a
supply of holy water blessed in church. She
sprinkled it on the stone and elsewhere around her
cooking area and house, and it worked! No more
stones fell.
In other villages the locals were disgusted that
black stones were falling out of the sky because one
almost hit somebody in Ha Motloang. They picked up
the stones and threw them as far away as they could
to get them out of their villages. Once they
overcame their superstitions regarding this
meteorite and realized they were worth something,
hundreds began to search for them.
What you see here is the first batch to reach the civilized world. We are expecting the bulk of the fall, another 12 kilograms to reach us this week. The well-defined strewn field has been scoured for months now so we expect only another 2 to 4 kilograms will show up after this. After one of our partners, thinking that all the material had been recovered (not possible) spoke about this fall in Tucson the word was out. Now a three-person team arrived yesterday from Tucson and is asking about the stones. Now there is a race on to see who can recover the most of this new fall. Good luck to the other teams and may we all win!
The samples pictured below are priced as follows:
10-50 grams $7.50 per gram
51-200 grams $7.00 per gram
201-500 grams $6.50 per gram
over 500 grams $6.00 per gram
Her is a link to available specimens:
http://www.lunarrock.com/thuathe/thuathe.jpg
Please email us and let us know if any of these are of interest.
All the best,
Adam and Greg Hupe
The Hupe Collection
IMCA 2185
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