MikeG. writes: "Hi Gary, I think you are referring to Novo-Urei, the type fall of ureilites. :)"
Hi Mike, Gary, and List, MikeG., this time *you* were faster so we're even :-) "On a September morning in 1886, several meteorites fell near the village of Novo Urei... one of the stones was soon recovered by local peasants, where- upon it was broken apart and eaten. The motivation for this rather unusual action is not known, but this constituted an impressive feat from a dental perspective, because the meteorite contained numerous small diamonds." Reference: McSWEEN H.Y. (1999) Meteorites and Their Parent Planets (Cambridge University Press, Glossary, p. 145). Best from stifling hot Germany, Bernd ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
