Hello list, because I couldn't find it mentioned yet on the list here.
In the last German meteorite, a "find" made in 2004 in Saxonia by a moldavites hunter, typical weathering feautures of hot desert meteorites were found. So it was a fake. Hopefully Königsbrück will be soon removed from the Meteorite Bulletin Database? Unfortunately I still find there another skeleton in the cupboard of German meteorites listed as an official meteorite. Inningen, Bavaria, 1998. The Ni-content and the trace element data are consistent with Sikhote-Alin and the piece is a typical shrapnel. (That's why no structural type had could been determined). >From impact dynamics we all know, that shrapnels are produced only by impacts of major iron masses. Inningen was a single 1.2kg specimen, "found" on a road. It's highest time after 10 years now, I'd say, to remove Inningen from the Catalogue or at least to mark it as doubtful. (That becomes more and more a fashion to fake finds. A while ago someone in Germany claimed to have found a Gibeon in a quarry - and 2 weeks ago a German tried me to sell a meteorite he had found here by his own - an indochinite!) Best! Martin ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
