Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Marco Langbroek

Carl Agee schreef op 14-12-2013 22:00:

For those of you who don't understand Dutch, the lady in the YouTube
clip is the owner of Diepenveen and she donated it to museum Naturalis
(which is the merger of the Royal Museums at Leiden). Neat story, and
clearly great publicity for meteoritics! Now just waiting on Karen
Ziegler to tell everyone what the oxygen isotopes are :)



I prefer she does not untill our publication has appeared ;-)

'Naturalis' is the Dutch National Museum of Natural History, which is a merger 
between the former National museum of Geology, the National Museum of Natural 
History, and the State Herbarium.


The former owner indeed donated the stone to the Museum, which is an extremely 
kind act!


- Marco


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Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Karen Ziegler
Large spread of d18O values (2.5 to 7.7‰). D17O values between -5.6 and
-3.9‰. 4 out of the analyzed 5 aliquots plot in the CM oxygen isotope
field. These data have to be coupled with Rhian Jones' abundant mineralogy
and petrography data !

Karen



On 12/14/13 2:00 PM, "Carl Agee"  wrote:

>For those of you who don't understand Dutch, the lady in the YouTube
>clip is the owner of Diepenveen and she donated it to museum Naturalis
>(which is the merger of the Royal Museums at Leiden). Neat story, and
>clearly great publicity for meteoritics! Now just waiting on Karen
>Ziegler to tell everyone what the oxygen isotopes are :)
>
>Carl
>*
>Carl B. Agee
>Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics
>Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
>MSC03 2050
>University of New Mexico
>Albuquerque NM 87131-1126
>
>Tel: (505) 750-7172
>Fax: (505) 277-3577
>Email: a...@unm.edu
>http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/
>
>
>
>On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Marco Langbroek
> wrote:
>>> Hi listoids,
>>>
>>> No "Diepenveen", as the meteorite is now officially called, in the Met
>>> Bull, sorry.
>>> Best regards.
>>> Michel Franco
>>> IMCA 3869
>>
>>
>>
>> That's because the meteorite still has to be submitted. It's not an
>>official
>> name yet.
>>
>> It will probably be submitted in the next few weeks after some
>>additional
>> microprobe work to complement earlier preliminary work.
>>
>> I am one of the PI's on this meteorite.
>>
>> The meteorite is "officially" the 5th meteorite of the Netherlands in
>>the
>> sense that we have established it is a meteorite indeed, a CM
>>Carbonaceous
>> meteorite more exactly, and not paired to a known meteorite.
>>
>> Last Thursday, the former owner of the meteorite in a ceremony handed
>>over
>> the stone to the Dutch National Museum of Natural History in Leiden,
>>with
>> press present, hence why it is in the news now.
>>
>> For some pictures of the stone, see here:
>>
>> http://home.online.nl/marco.langbroek/diepnl.html
>>
>> (apologies that there is only a Dutch text for the moment)
>>
>> More news on this meteorite somewhere next year when we have completed
>> several analysis. Besides our VU University Amsterdam, several
>>international
>> institutions are involved (Oxygen isotopes were done at UNM for example
>>and
>> CRE at UC Berkeley) and research is still ongoing.
>>
>> This is the 5th surviving meteorite of the Netherlands but the third
>> chronologically if we look at the fall date, 27 October 1873.
>> Chronologically it is the 2nd witnessed CM fall, after Cold Bokkeveld.
>>
>> For those of you who master Dutch, there is a TV news item in Dutch
>>about
>> the handover ceremony here, including some short snippets of interview
>>with
>> me, the former owner, and the amateur astronomer who basically
>> 'rediscovered' it in the former owner's rock collection 139 years after
>>it
>> fell:
>>
>> http://youtu.be/8IPR9vrQoR4
>>
>> There is only one stone (a half stone actually: 50-65% fusion crust),
>> originally weighing 68 grams before sampling. It came in a wooden box
>>with a
>> beautiful hand-written label with details including location, date,
>>time,
>> phenomena, name of the person who picked it up etcetera. With some
>> additional archive research, we can pinpoint the fall location to a few
>> hundred yards.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Marco
>>
>>
>> -
>> Dr Marco Langbroek
>>
>> Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences
>> VU University Amsterdam
>> -
>>
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Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Carl Agee
For those of you who don't understand Dutch, the lady in the YouTube
clip is the owner of Diepenveen and she donated it to museum Naturalis
(which is the merger of the Royal Museums at Leiden). Neat story, and
clearly great publicity for meteoritics! Now just waiting on Karen
Ziegler to tell everyone what the oxygen isotopes are :)

Carl
*
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Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
MSC03 2050
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131-1126

Tel: (505) 750-7172
Fax: (505) 277-3577
Email: a...@unm.edu
http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/



On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Marco Langbroek
 wrote:
>> Hi listoids,
>>
>> No "Diepenveen", as the meteorite is now officially called, in the Met
>> Bull, sorry.
>> Best regards.
>> Michel Franco
>> IMCA 3869
>
>
>
> That's because the meteorite still has to be submitted. It's not an official
> name yet.
>
> It will probably be submitted in the next few weeks after some additional
> microprobe work to complement earlier preliminary work.
>
> I am one of the PI's on this meteorite.
>
> The meteorite is "officially" the 5th meteorite of the Netherlands in the
> sense that we have established it is a meteorite indeed, a CM Carbonaceous
> meteorite more exactly, and not paired to a known meteorite.
>
> Last Thursday, the former owner of the meteorite in a ceremony handed over
> the stone to the Dutch National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, with
> press present, hence why it is in the news now.
>
> For some pictures of the stone, see here:
>
> http://home.online.nl/marco.langbroek/diepnl.html
>
> (apologies that there is only a Dutch text for the moment)
>
> More news on this meteorite somewhere next year when we have completed
> several analysis. Besides our VU University Amsterdam, several international
> institutions are involved (Oxygen isotopes were done at UNM for example and
> CRE at UC Berkeley) and research is still ongoing.
>
> This is the 5th surviving meteorite of the Netherlands but the third
> chronologically if we look at the fall date, 27 October 1873.
> Chronologically it is the 2nd witnessed CM fall, after Cold Bokkeveld.
>
> For those of you who master Dutch, there is a TV news item in Dutch about
> the handover ceremony here, including some short snippets of interview with
> me, the former owner, and the amateur astronomer who basically
> 'rediscovered' it in the former owner's rock collection 139 years after it
> fell:
>
> http://youtu.be/8IPR9vrQoR4
>
> There is only one stone (a half stone actually: 50-65% fusion crust),
> originally weighing 68 grams before sampling. It came in a wooden box with a
> beautiful hand-written label with details including location, date, time,
> phenomena, name of the person who picked it up etcetera. With some
> additional archive research, we can pinpoint the fall location to a few
> hundred yards.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Marco
>
>
> -
> Dr Marco Langbroek
>
> Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences
> VU University Amsterdam
> -
>
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Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Marco Langbroek

Anne Black schreef op 14-12-2013 20:40:

Thank you Marco, but one question.

I notice on the old label the word "Orgeuil". Could this mean that whoever wrote
that label suspeected the stone to be a meteorite, and compared it to the
Orgueil meteorite?
(sorry I cannot read your explanation in Dutch).


Hi Anne,

Yes, that is exactly what the label implies. It refers to a page with a picture 
and description of Orgeuil, in a 1883 publication on meteorites in a Dutch 
popular scientific periodical that was widely read by Dutch physics teachers.


The other, loose card with all the details that is in the box too (the half 
circular card) also is titled "Meteoorsteen", which means "meteor stone".


So during the decade after the fall someone (and we think we know which two 
persons wrote the card respectively the separate label) did think it was 
probably a meteorite and that it looked a bit like Orgeuil (which is however a 
CI, not a CM). What puzzles us is that the stone was apparently never analyzed 
even though these two people realized it could be a meteorite. Instead, it has 
been gathering dust in its little box as part of a forgotten school curiosa 
collection for a century, before passing into private hands (when the school was 
closed down and part of the inventory was taken home by a teacher) and after a 
while finally came to our attention last year.


cheers,

- Marco

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Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Marco Langbroek

Anne Black schreef op 14-12-2013 20:40:

Thank you Marco, but one question.

I notice on the old label the word "Orgeuil". Could this mean that whoever wrote
that label suspeected the stone to be a meteorite, and compared it to the
Orgueil meteorite?
(sorry I cannot read your explanation in Dutch).


Hi Anne,

Yes, that is exactly what the label implies. It refers to a page with a picture 
and description of Orgeuil, in a 1883 publication on meteorites in a Dutch 
popular scientific periodical that was widely read by Dutch physics teachers.


The other, loose card with all the details that is in the box too (the half 
circular card) also is titled "Meteoorsteen", which means "meteor stone".


So during the decade after the fall someone (and we think we know which two 
persons wrote the card respectively the separate label) did think it was 
probably a meteorite and that it looked a bit like Orgeuil (which is however a 
CI, not a CM). What puzzles us is that the stone was apparently never analyzed 
even though these two people realized it could be a meteorite. Instead, it has 
been gathering dust in its little box for a century, before passing into private 
hands (when the school was closed down) and after a while finally came to our 
attention last year.


cheers,

- Marco

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Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Anne Black

Thank you Marco, but one question.

I notice on the old label the word "Orgeuil". Could this mean that 
whoever wrote that label suspeected the stone to be a meteorite, and 
compared it to the Orgueil meteorite?

(sorry I cannot read your explanation in Dutch).


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
impact...@aol.com


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years	-	space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist




Hi listoids,

No "Diepenveen", as the meteorite is now officially called, in the 

Met Bull,
sorry.

Best regards.
Michel Franco
IMCA 3869



That's because the meteorite still has to be submitted. It's not an 
official

name yet.

It will probably be submitted in the next few weeks after some 
additional

microprobe work to complement earlier preliminary work.

I am one of the PI's on this meteorite.

The meteorite is "officially" the 5th meteorite of the Netherlands in 
the sense
that we have established it is a meteorite indeed, a CM Carbonaceous 
meteorite

more exactly, and not paired to a known meteorite.

Last Thursday, the former owner of the meteorite in a ceremony handed 
over the
stone to the Dutch National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, with 
press

present, hence why it is in the news now.

For some pictures of the stone, see here:

http://home.online.nl/marco.langbroek/diepnl.html

(apologies that there is only a Dutch text for the moment)

More news on this meteorite somewhere next year when we have completed 
several

analysis. Besides our VU University Amsterdam, several international
institutions are involved (Oxygen isotopes were done at UNM for example 
and CRE

at UC Berkeley) and research is still ongoing.

This is the 5th surviving meteorite of the Netherlands but the third
chronologically if we look at the fall date, 27 October 1873. 
Chronologically it


is the 2nd witnessed CM fall, after Cold Bokkeveld.

For those of you who master Dutch, there is a TV news item in Dutch 
about the
handover ceremony here, including some short snippets of interview with 
me, the
former owner, and the amateur astronomer who basically 'rediscovered' 
it in the

former owner's rock collection 139 years after it fell:

http://youtu.be/8IPR9vrQoR4

There is only one stone (a half stone actually: 50-65% fusion crust), 
originally


weighing 68 grams before sampling. It came in a wooden box with a  
beautiful
hand-written label with details including location, date, time, 
phenomena, name
of the person who picked it up etcetera. With some additional archive 
research,

we can pinpoint the fall location to a few hundred yards.

Cheers,

- Marco


-
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Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences
VU University Amsterdam
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Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Carl Agee
Marco,

Gefeliciteerd!

-Carl

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Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
MSC03 2050
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On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Marco Langbroek
 wrote:
>> Hi listoids,
>>
>> No "Diepenveen", as the meteorite is now officially called, in the Met
>> Bull, sorry.
>> Best regards.
>> Michel Franco
>> IMCA 3869
>
>
>
> That's because the meteorite still has to be submitted. It's not an official
> name yet.
>
> It will probably be submitted in the next few weeks after some additional
> microprobe work to complement earlier preliminary work.
>
> I am one of the PI's on this meteorite.
>
> The meteorite is "officially" the 5th meteorite of the Netherlands in the
> sense that we have established it is a meteorite indeed, a CM Carbonaceous
> meteorite more exactly, and not paired to a known meteorite.
>
> Last Thursday, the former owner of the meteorite in a ceremony handed over
> the stone to the Dutch National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, with
> press present, hence why it is in the news now.
>
> For some pictures of the stone, see here:
>
> http://home.online.nl/marco.langbroek/diepnl.html
>
> (apologies that there is only a Dutch text for the moment)
>
> More news on this meteorite somewhere next year when we have completed
> several analysis. Besides our VU University Amsterdam, several international
> institutions are involved (Oxygen isotopes were done at UNM for example and
> CRE at UC Berkeley) and research is still ongoing.
>
> This is the 5th surviving meteorite of the Netherlands but the third
> chronologically if we look at the fall date, 27 October 1873.
> Chronologically it is the 2nd witnessed CM fall, after Cold Bokkeveld.
>
> For those of you who master Dutch, there is a TV news item in Dutch about
> the handover ceremony here, including some short snippets of interview with
> me, the former owner, and the amateur astronomer who basically
> 'rediscovered' it in the former owner's rock collection 139 years after it
> fell:
>
> http://youtu.be/8IPR9vrQoR4
>
> There is only one stone (a half stone actually: 50-65% fusion crust),
> originally weighing 68 grams before sampling. It came in a wooden box with a
> beautiful hand-written label with details including location, date, time,
> phenomena, name of the person who picked it up etcetera. With some
> additional archive research, we can pinpoint the fall location to a few
> hundred yards.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Marco
>
>
> -
> Dr Marco Langbroek
>
> Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences
> VU University Amsterdam
> -
>
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Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Marco Langbroek

Hi listoids,

No "Diepenveen", as the meteorite is now officially called, in the Met Bull, 
sorry.
Best regards.
Michel Franco
IMCA 3869



That's because the meteorite still has to be submitted. It's not an official 
name yet.


It will probably be submitted in the next few weeks after some additional 
microprobe work to complement earlier preliminary work.


I am one of the PI's on this meteorite.

The meteorite is "officially" the 5th meteorite of the Netherlands in the sense 
that we have established it is a meteorite indeed, a CM Carbonaceous meteorite 
more exactly, and not paired to a known meteorite.


Last Thursday, the former owner of the meteorite in a ceremony handed over the 
stone to the Dutch National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, with press 
present, hence why it is in the news now.


For some pictures of the stone, see here:

http://home.online.nl/marco.langbroek/diepnl.html

(apologies that there is only a Dutch text for the moment)

More news on this meteorite somewhere next year when we have completed several 
analysis. Besides our VU University Amsterdam, several international 
institutions are involved (Oxygen isotopes were done at UNM for example and CRE 
at UC Berkeley) and research is still ongoing.


This is the 5th surviving meteorite of the Netherlands but the third 
chronologically if we look at the fall date, 27 October 1873. Chronologically it 
is the 2nd witnessed CM fall, after Cold Bokkeveld.


For those of you who master Dutch, there is a TV news item in Dutch about the 
handover ceremony here, including some short snippets of interview with me, the 
former owner, and the amateur astronomer who basically 'rediscovered' it in the 
former owner's rock collection 139 years after it fell:


http://youtu.be/8IPR9vrQoR4

There is only one stone (a half stone actually: 50-65% fusion crust), originally 
weighing 68 grams before sampling. It came in a wooden box with a  beautiful 
hand-written label with details including location, date, time, phenomena, name 
of the person who picked it up etcetera. With some additional archive research, 
we can pinpoint the fall location to a few hundred yards.


Cheers,

- Marco


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Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-13 Thread Michel FRANCO
Hi listoids,

No "Diepenveen", as the meteorite is now officially called, in the Met Bull, 
sorry.
Best regards.
Michel Franco 
IMCA 3869

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13 December 2013 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24753-rare-space-rock-goes-unnoticed-for-140-years.html#.UqtQ4XgazCQ


16:08 13 December 2013 by Govert Schilling


A rare meteorite that formed soon after the origin of the solar system has been 
discovered in a private geological collection – 140 years after it fell to 
Earth. The stone, which is around 4.6 billion years old, was officially handed 
over to Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, earlier this 
week.

Bright lights and sizzling sounds accompanied the fall of the meteorite on 27 
October 1873 in the village of Diepenveen in the Netherlands, according to a 
contemporary handwritten note. Two witnesses to the fall dug up the small, warm 
stone and gave it to the local schoolmaster. It remained a school specimen 
until 2009, when it was given to a collector. Dutch amateur astronomer Henk 
Nieuwenhuis then "rediscovered" the 5-centimetre-wide space rock when he 
examined the collection last year.

"It is very unusual for a space rock to remain unnoticed by astronomers and 
geologists for such a long time," says Leo Kriegsman, a geologist at the 
Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

The Diepenveen, as the meteorite is now officially called, is only the fifth to 
have fallen in the Netherlands as far as we know. The find is all the more 
remarkable because the meteorite turns out to be of a very rare, carbon-rich 
type known as a CM carbonaceous chondrite – the same type as the one that 
triggered a meteorite hunt when it fell to Earth in California last year.

"CMs comprise less than 1 per cent of all known meteorites," says geologist 
Marco Langbroek of the Free University in Amsterdam, where the Diepenveen 
underwent its first analysis.

CM carbonaceous chondrites contain up to 2 per cent carbon, often in the form 
of microscopic diamonds. They also contain organic matter like amino acids, 
which some researchers believe brought the building blocks of life to Earth.

"It is very interesting news," says meteorite researcher Peter Brown of the 
University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. "CM meteorite falls are indeed 
rare. If the meteorite has been stored well and not subjected to too much 
terrestrial contamination it could be quite interesting."

However, fellow meteorite researcher Michael Zolensky of NASA's Johnson Space 
Center in Houston, Texas, is more cautious. "It will be thoroughly contaminated 
in any case, so only results for non-terrestrially occurring amino acids may be 
believable," he says.

Tiny samples of the brittle and porous meteorite are now being studied at 
laboratories in California, New Mexico and Switzerland. "We hope to publish our 
analysis results sometime next year," says Langbroek.

  
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[meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-13 Thread Me Teor
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24753-rare-space-rock-goes-unnoticed-for-140-years.html#.UqtQ4XgazCQ


16:08 13 December 2013 by Govert Schilling


A rare meteorite that formed soon after the origin of the solar system has been 
discovered in a private geological collection – 140 years after it fell to 
Earth. The stone, which is around 4.6 billion years old, was officially handed 
over to Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, earlier this 
week.

Bright lights and sizzling sounds accompanied the fall of the meteorite on 27 
October 1873 in the village of Diepenveen in the Netherlands, according to a 
contemporary handwritten note. Two witnesses to the fall dug up the small, warm 
stone and gave it to the local schoolmaster. It remained a school specimen 
until 2009, when it was given to a collector. Dutch amateur astronomer Henk 
Nieuwenhuis then "rediscovered" the 5-centimetre-wide space rock when he 
examined the collection last year.

"It is very unusual for a space rock to remain unnoticed by astronomers and 
geologists for such a long time," says Leo Kriegsman, a geologist at the 
Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

The Diepenveen, as the meteorite is now officially called, is only the fifth to 
have fallen in the Netherlands as far as we know. The find is all the more 
remarkable because the meteorite turns out to be of a very rare, carbon-rich 
type known as a CM carbonaceous chondrite – the same type as the one that 
triggered a meteorite hunt when it fell to Earth in California last year.

"CMs comprise less than 1 per cent of all known meteorites," says geologist 
Marco Langbroek of the Free University in Amsterdam, where the Diepenveen 
underwent its first analysis.

CM carbonaceous chondrites contain up to 2 per cent carbon, often in the form 
of microscopic diamonds. They also contain organic matter like amino acids, 
which some researchers believe brought the building blocks of life to Earth.

"It is very interesting news," says meteorite researcher Peter Brown of the 
University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. "CM meteorite falls are indeed 
rare. If the meteorite has been stored well and not subjected to too much 
terrestrial contamination it could be quite interesting."

However, fellow meteorite researcher Michael Zolensky of NASA's Johnson Space 
Center in Houston, Texas, is more cautious. "It will be thoroughly contaminated 
in any case, so only results for non-terrestrially occurring amino acids may be 
believable," he says.

Tiny samples of the brittle and porous meteorite are now being studied at 
laboratories in California, New Mexico and Switzerland. "We hope to publish our 
analysis results sometime next year," says Langbroek.

  
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