Agreed. Reminds me of a H.H. Nininger write-up. Fascinating and a great
account of the fall. Thanks for taking the time!
Matt Morgan
Mile High Meteorites
matt wrote:
An absolutely stunning piece of work, well done Svend and Matthias. I've
only managed a quick browser through so far, but look forward to
spending longer reading it later. It's enlightening to see this amount
of detail regarding a fall and it's subsequent collection/distribution.
Thanks for all your time and effort,
Matt.
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We are pleased to announce that the Descriptive Catalog on the Recovered Masses
of the Bassikounou Meteorite Fall is now available as a non-commercial download.
The catalog lists 108 single masses of a combined weight of 62.186kg (including
the 6.120kg main mass) individually and another 31.665kg in lots. More than 80
individual masses are pictured. The final TKW of the Bassikounou meteorite fall
is 93.851kg.
In the latest phase of this undertaking we have often been approached by
collectors explaining that regarding to their observations the TKW should be
much higher. To prove their point they showed us images of single Bassikounou
meteorites or complete lots they were offered recently. In 99% of these cases
we had cataloged the particular masses before either individually or under a
certain lot.
In this context it might be interesting for some of you, that many meteorites change hands already before they get distributed. Moroccan sellers equip their colleagues with commission material to visit Europe, or they simply exchange certain batches of material between one another. This is the reason why one and the same meteorite can be offered to you from different sellers from the same NWA country successively.
During our research we were able to follow an exemplary Bassikounou mass on its journey from the local finder, to a distributor in Morroco, to a meteorite fair in France, to a European mineral dealer and finally to a collector in Canada. During the stations of the journey this particular meteorite was offered no less than 12 times under different circumstances and with different photos.
This in mind it is no wonder that people think there is much more material
circulating than actually is. Our experience lead us to the conclusion that
many recent meteorite falls that produced showers are largely overestimated in
their total weight.
We hope that our investigation may aid the understanding and recovery of future meteorite falls in isolated areas. And we are positive, that our undertaking helps to sensitize finders as well as distributors in Mauritania and Morocco to preserve the information that is connected to the meteorites they trade.
You can access the complete catalog by clicking at the cover image on the
bottom of page 5 of the Bassikounou report:
http://www.niger-meteorite-recon.de/en/Bassikounou_Meteorite_5.htm
Or simply by copying the direct link into your browser:
http://www.niger-meteorite-recon.de/img_inventar/Buhl_Baermann_Catalog.pdf
Please allow the large document some time to load.
Thanks again to all contributors.
Svend Buhl & Matthias Baermann
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