Hello Listers I hop :) .... hope everyone had a great Easter...... I had peeps and pop corn and gummy worms, great combo. I would like to announce the win and answer for the POP QUIZ today. Question True or False The current classification scheme for meteorites had its beginnings in the 1900s with G. Rose’s classification of the meteorite collection at the University Museum of Berlin. False Correct answer is 1860's I would like to congratulate Carl .... Meteoritemax. You will be receiving a Saratov fragment that fell in 1918 in Russia. And while we are on the topic of classifications I found this early form of classification please take a look down below. De Drée, 1803: The First Meteorite Classification De Drée took a great interest in meteorites and immediately began to work out a classification of them based chiefly on their materials, as reported by Howard and Vauquelin, and the circumstances of their falls. He distinguished the following four classes (de Drée 1803b:410): Class I: Stones consisting of similar materials that fell in serene weather without thunderstorms: Salles, Ensisheim, Barbotan, Benares, Wold Cottage. Class II: Stones of the same materials as class I but which fell from enflamed clouds with lightning flashes with or without detonations: Siena, Tabor. Class III: Masses mainly of malleable iron, of which the only observed fall occurred at Agram in Croatia after a fireball and an explosion followed by rumbling sounds. Class IV: All masses for which the circumstances of fall are not verified and their compositions fall outside those of the first three classes or are uncertain: his list of about 20 included the irons found in Siberia, Argentina, and Senegal; stones from observed falls including Lucé, Eichstädt, and Portugal, and about a dozen historical accounts taken mainly from Chladni.
Source http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1996M%26PS...31..545M Shawn Alan IMCA 1633 eBaystore http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list