Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

2013-06-13 Thread Michael Farmer
Seymchan much larger Pallasite one piece is 3 metric tons alone. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 13, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, I am putting together a list of the largest known meteorites by type. Here is what the list looks like so

Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

2013-06-13 Thread Pict
Where is the 3 tonne Seymchan? Met Bull has mass at 323kg by the way. Regards, John On 13/06/2013 12:22, Michael Farmer m...@meteoriteguy.com wrote: Seymchan much larger Pallasite one piece is 3 metric tons alone. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 13, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Galactic Stone Ironworks

Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

2013-06-13 Thread Michael Farmer
It has been sitting in Tucson for years. Oriented nose cone. Now in China. Met bulletin is decades behind. Seymchan now at least 15 tons. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 13, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Pict p...@pict.co.uk wrote: Where is the 3 tonne Seymchan? Met Bull has mass at 323kg by the way.

Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

2013-06-13 Thread Mendy Ouzillou
than what is reported in the  MetBull. Mendy Ouzillou From: Pict p...@pict.co.uk To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

2013-06-13 Thread Carl Agee
To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type Where is the 3 tonne Seymchan? Met Bull has mass at 323kg by the way. Regards, John On 13/06/2013 12:22, Michael

Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

2013-06-13 Thread Adam Hupe
I wish somebody would take the time to actually and truthfully certify the weight on Kalahari 009. Weighing it on a bathroom scale and rounding it off is disrespectful to such a piece!  It may be the world's heaviest but we will never know until somebody does the right thing and weighs it

Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

2013-06-13 Thread Randy Korotev
Adam: I entirely agree, but on the basis of this photo http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/stones/kalahari008.htm and assuming a density of 2.6 g/cm^3, I'd say that rock was at least 13 kg. Randy At 01:32 PM 2013-06-13 Thursday, you wrote: I wish somebody would take the time to actually

Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

2013-06-13 Thread Adam Hupe
@meteoritecentral.com Cc: Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type Adam: I entirely agree, but on the basis of this photo http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/stones/kalahari008.htm and assuming a density of 2.6 g/cm^3, I'd say that rock was at least

Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

2013-06-13 Thread Jeff Grossman
Just to back up what Carl said, MetBull is not decades behind... it may be decades out of date though. MetBull does not attempt to log new discoveries of additional pieces of meteorites, so it is not behind in this task. It is, in general, a one-time publication with a date on it, like a

Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

2013-06-13 Thread Michael Farmer
Yes But some major new finds need to be updated. Springwater for example, seymchan, etc. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPhone On Jun 13, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Jeff Grossman jngross...@gmail.com wrote: Just to back up what Carl said, MetBull is not decades behind... it may be decades out of date

Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

2013-06-13 Thread Mendy Ouzillou
@meteoritecentral.com meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:39 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type Yes But some major new finds need to be updated. Springwater for example, seymchan, etc. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPhone On Jun 13