Let's make no mistake about the importance of ALHA81005: this was the
stone that led to the discovery that rocks from the Moon were present in
the meteorite record on Earth.
Likewise, EETA79001 was the stone that provided the first convincing
evidence that Mars rocks were present on Earth. Until that time,
Chassigny and Nakhla were just different kinds of achondrites.
These meteorites are the ones that belong in the science hall of fame.
Jeff
On 4/27/2011 1:10 AM, Shawn Alan wrote:
Hello Frank and Listers,
Why I asked this question was because a couple weeks ago I sent out some emails
on a project I am working on and someone had suggested that I should have
ALHA81005 with the project I am doing because it was the first Lunar meteorite
found. Thats some big new for the meteorite/science world. I got to looking
around and saw that the date was 1981 or 1982 when the lunar was discovered and
I had also noticed on the Meteoritical Bulletin Database that Calcalong Creek
was discovered 1960. I had also read other sources that stated that the
Calcalong Creek was found after 1960 but before 1990 by an Aborigine meteorite
hunter in the Millbillillie strewnfield. Science likes to be 100% right so to
say that the ALHA81005 was the first discovered lunar meteorite has some doubt
in my mind because of the project I am doing. Yes I can agree that the
ALHA81005 is the first classified meteorite, however to say that it was the
first lunar to be found has some little doubts
because of what had be going on in Austrial from 1960 to 1990 with the
collecting of the Millbillillie meteorites. I would like to see or hear what
Robert Haag can recall from that day when he found that specail meteorite. Hes
the first source and could help enlighten what he can recall from the day he
found the first lunar meteorite out side of Anartica and could also be the
first found lunar as well. Hope he reads this and can put some light on to this
fasinating discovery.
Shawn Alan
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--- On Tue, 4/26/11, Frank Cressy<[email protected]> wrote:
From: Frank Cressy<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Which came first the chicken or the egg?
To: "Shawn Alan"<[email protected]>
Cc: "meteoritelist"<[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 8:33 PM
Shawn,
I think you've misinterpreted your source a bit. It says
that Calcalong Creek
was found AFTER 1960. As I remember it Millbillillie
fell in 1960, but no
meteorites from that fall were found until the early
1970s. Many stones were
found in the 70s and 80s and are still being found today.
There is no data as
far as I know as to when Calcalong Creek was actually
picked up. Haag found
Calcalong Creek in a box of Millbillillie stones stones he
purchased in1990 or
1991 and he recognized it as "different" then. Unless you
can say exactly when
Calcalong Creek was picked up I think you have to go with
ALHA81005 as the first
lunar.
Cheers,
Frank
----- Original Message ----
From: Shawn Alan<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, April 26, 2011 5:59:05 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Which came first the chicken or
the egg?
Hello Listers
The question is which came first the chicken or the eggs?
Well lets get back to
the but I have a better one, which came first Calcalong
Creek Lunar or ALHA81005
Lunar ? Sources and research states that ALHA81005 was the
first Lunar
meteorite. But how can that be? Calcalong Creek meteorite
was recovered by an
Aborigine meteorite hunter in the Millbillillie strewnfield
in 1960 ish and
discovered by Robert Haag in 1990 ish. Now wouldn't the
statement make more
since if it read like this.......
Calcalong Creek meteorite was the first discovered Lunar
meteorite and ALHA81005
was the first classified Lunar meteorite?
These sources state this........
ALHA81005
Whats special about this one?
It's the first rock found on Earth recognized to be a
meteorite from the Moon.
Compositionally, mineralogically, and texturally it is
unlike any other lunar
meteorite.
http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/stones/alha81005.htm
Calcalong Creek
Whats special about this one?
It was the first lunar meteorite to have been found outside
of Antarctica.
It is the only lunar meteorite to have been found in
Australia.
http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/stones/calcalong.htm
I would say the links are partly right but feel that
Calcalong Creek should also
say that it was the first found Lunar meteorite.
So now what came first Calcalong Creek or ALHA81005 or can
we say the chicken?
Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633
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