Dear Bernd, Thanks for the extract. I wonder why most catalogues, Grady, MetBull, etc. still list it as a fall. Perhaps it was the story of it being chained down to prevent it from flying away the way it came. There also seems to be discrepancies in "The History of Meteoritics and Key Meteorite Collections," where it is listed as both by different authors. One would think that by now the official status of such a historic piece would be sorted out. I'll have to read the old reports and see where the fall status stems from. Interesting!
-------------------------------- Mike Bandli Historic Meteorites www.HistoricMeteorites.com and join us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Meteorites1 IMCA #5765 -------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 12:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [meteorite-list] RFSPOD - Sep 18, 2010 - THe Elbogen Iron Mike B. wonders: "It is also interesting that NHMV's label suggests that they do not recognize Elbogen (ca. 1400) as the oldest iron fall. Why?" http://www.rocksfromspace.org/September_18_2010.html Hello Mike and List, They do not recognize Elbogen as the oldest iron fall because it is *not* a witnessed fall. In his trilogy, Vagn Buchwald only wrote: "the exterior shape of the mass certainly suggests a well-preserved fall. ..Elbogen was probably plowed up sometime around the year 1400 and soon became associated with the simultaneous death (killing?) of one of the hated burgraves." Reference: BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Volume 2, pp. 557-560. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Cheers, Bernd ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
