[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

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Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Dong Ujimqin Qi

Contributed by: Anne Black

http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=03/22/2016
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[meteorite-list] Asphalt Volcanoes Provide Stable Home for Life

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https://eos.org/articles/asphalt-volcanoes-erupt-in-slow-motion

Asphalt Volcanoes Erupt in Slow Motion
By Lauren Lipuma
EOS - Earth & Space Science News
March 15, 2016

Natural asphalt seeps on the ocean floor provide a stable home for diverse 
marine life that sequesters greenhouse gases.

Underwater volcanoes erupt throughout the world, but in the southern Gulf 
of Mexico, they churn out something unusual: cold asphalt instead of hot 
lava. First discovered in 2003, these natural oil seeps at the bottom 
of the ocean provide a home and fuel for marine life.

[Image]
Asphalt volcanoes form above natural oil reservoirs deep below the seabed. 
Microorganisms degrade the oil, leaving asphalt and methane to seep out 
of the ocean floor. This diagram shows how these structures form. Credit: 
Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

The highly diverse ecosystems that spring up around asphalt volcanoes 
do something else: sequester carbon. Federal laws protect deep-sea ecosystems 
on the U.S. side of the Gulf of Mexico, but on the Mexico side, no such 
protections exist. Because these sites occupy an area that is open to 
energy exploration and development, a multinational team of researchers 
has suggested that it is time to consider the best model to conserve them.

Pavement Under the Sea

Natural asphalt is a sticky, viscous form of oil. When microorganisms 
degrade oil from reservoirs below the seabed, they leave asphalt behind 
as a waste product.

A team of German, U.S., and Mexican researchers discovered asphalt volcanoes 
at the Campeche Knolls in the southern Gulf of Mexico during an expedition 
in 2003. The researchers named the original site, covering more than a 
square kilometer in area, Chapopote, the Aztec word for tar.

They found that as the asphalt seeped out of the seabed, it hardened and 
solidified in the cold water. Few processes add hard surfaces to the deep 
ocean, according to Ian MacDonald, a biological oceanographer at Florida 
State University in Gainesville and one of the researchers who discovered 
Chapopote.

Most organisms that survive in the depths do so by burrowing under layers 
of the ocean bottom's sediments, MacDonald said, but asphalts provide 
a hard surface on which species such as ice worms and some types of mussels 
can grow. In addition, the seeps provide the starting materials for 
chemosynthesis - 
the process by which organisms use energy from inorganic chemical reactions 
to make their food.

The German government funded return trips in 2006 and again in 2015 to 
further explore the asphalts and characterize the diverse fauna that inhabit 
them. MacDonald presented the results of the 2015 expedition at the 2016 
Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans.

Slow Ooze, Harboring Hydrates

When the team first discovered the asphalt volcanoes, they found that 
the asphalt looked strikingly similar to lava flows on land - asphalt 
flows change size, they get wrinkly, they fold over each other, MacDonald 
said. They speculated that the asphalt was released quickly in bursts, 
but when they returned in 2015, a closer look at the asphalt eliminated 
that possibility.

By creating a photo mosaic of the main asphalt flow and examining its 
shape and how the asphalt had weathered over time, they realized that 
the asphalt oozed slowly out of the seabed, rather than erupting in a 
quick spurt.

"The asphalts come out very slowly...tectonically slowly," MacDonald 
said.

[Image]
At deep asphalt volcano sites, gas hydrate outcrops, like this one seen 
in a panoramic view, form almost instantly. Credit: Ian MacDonald and 
Marum Center for Marine Environmental Sciences

Unexpectedly, the research team found large mounds of gas hydrates'clusters 
of ice with methane trapped inside - on or near the volcanoes. They also 
found massive aggregations of chemosynthetic tube worms tens of meters 
long colonizing the hydrate mounds. Some of the tube worms may be hundreds 
of years old, they noted.

Gas hydrates would normally dissolve quickly in seawater because the 
concentration 
of methane in the sea is so low, but the researchers suspect the tube 
worms help to stabilize the hydrate mounds.

"The tube worms are creating a blanket that essentially sequesters the 
gas hydrate and stops it from dissolving into the seawater," MacDonald 
explained.

Interocean Connectivity

Chemosynthetic communities proliferate around hydrocarbon seeps in many 
areas along the equator, from the Gulf of Mexico to West Africa's Atlantic 
coast and even in the eastern Pacific. Before the Isthmus of Panama closed 
off the Atlantic from the Pacific, these waters were joined.

"We think that, at some point, all of these communities were connected, 
and we still see a genetic relationship in some of the crustaceans between 
these sites," said Elva Escobar, an aquatic ecologist at the National 
Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City and a member of the research 
team. The group is now studying how 

[meteorite-list] Science Papers Reveal New Aspects of Pluto and its Moons

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/science-papers-reveal-new-aspects-of-pluto-and-its-moons

Science Papers Reveal New Aspects of Pluto and its Moons
Last Updated: March 17, 2016
Editor: Tricia Talbert

[Image]
This image of haze layers above Pluto's limb was taken by the 
Ralph/Multispectral 
Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. About 
20 haze layers are seen; the layers have been found to typically extend 
horizontally over hundreds of kilometers, but are not strictly parallel 
to the surface. For example, scientists note a haze layer about 3 miles 
(5 kilometers) above the surface (lower left area of the image), which 
descends to the surface at the right.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Gladstone et al./Science (2016)

A year ago, Pluto was just a bright speck in the cameras of NASA's approaching 
New Horizons spacecraft, not much different than its appearances in telescopes 
since Clyde Tombaugh discovered the then-ninth planet in 1930.

But this week, in the journal Science, New Horizons scientists have authored 
the first comprehensive set of papers describing results from last summer's 
Pluto system flyby. "These five detailed papers completely transform 
our view of Pluto - revealing the former 'astronomer's planet' 
to be a real world with diverse and active geology, exotic surface chemistry, 
a complex atmosphere, puzzling interaction with the sun and an intriguing 
system of small moons," said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator 
from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado. 
 
[Images]
Above are New Horizons' views of the informally named Sputnik Planum 
on Pluto (top) and the informally named Vulcan Planum on Charon (bottom). 
The Sputnik Planum strip measures 228 miles (367 kilometers) long, and 
the Vulcan Planum strip measures 194 miles (312 kilometers) long. Illumination 
is from the left. The bright, nitrogen-ice plains are defined by a network 
of crisscrossing troughs. This observation was obtained by the 
Ralph/Multispectral 
Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) at a resolution of 1,050 feet (320 meters) 
per pixel. The Vulcan Planum view in the bottom panel includes the "moated 
mountain" Clarke Mons just above the center of the image. The water 
ice-rich plains display a range of surface textures, from smooth and grooved 
at left, to pitted and hummocky at right. This observation was obtained 
by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) at a resolution of 525 
feet (160 meters) per pixel.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

After a 9.5-year, 3-billion-mile journey - launching faster and traveling 
farther than any spacecraft to reach its primary target - New Horizons 
zipped by Pluto on July 14, 2015. New Horizons' seven science instruments 
collected about 50 gigabits of data on the spacecraft's digital recorders, 
most of it coming over nine busy days surrounding the encounter.

The first close-up pictures revealed a large heart-shaped feature carved 
into Pluto's surface, telling scientists that this "new" type of 
planetary world - the largest, brightest and first-explored in the mysterious, 
distant "third zone" of our solar system known as the Kuiper Belt 
- would be even more interesting and puzzling than models predicted.

The newly published Science papers bear that out; click here for a list 
of top results. 

"Observing Pluto and Charon up close has caused us to completely reassess 
thinking on what sort of geological activity can be sustained on isolated 
planetary bodies in this distant region of the solar system, worlds that 
formerly had been thought to be relics little changed since the Kuiper 
Belt's formation," said Jeff Moore, lead author of the geology paper 
from NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

Scientists studying Pluto's composition say the diversity of its landscape 
stems from eons of interaction between highly volatile and mobile methane, 
nitrogen and carbon monoxide ices with inert and sturdy water ice. "We 
see variations in the distribution of Pluto's volatile ices that point 
to fascinating cycles of evaporation and condensation," said Will Grundy 
of the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, lead author of the composition 
paper. "These cycles are a lot richer than those on Earth, where there's 
really only one material that condenses and evaporates - water. On Pluto, 
there are at least three materials, and while they interact in ways we 
don't yet fully understand, we definitely see their effects all across 
Pluto's surface.

[Image]
This enhanced color view of Pluto's surface diversity was created by merging 
Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) color imagery (650 meters 
or 2,132 feet per pixel) with Long Range Reconnaissance Imager panchromatic 
imagery (230 meters or 755 feet per pixel). At lower right, ancient, heavily 
cratered terrain is coated with dark, reddish tholins. At upper right, 
volatile ices filling the informally named Sputnik Planum have modified 
the 

[meteorite-list] Bright Spots and Color Differences Revealed on Ceres

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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6168

Bright Spots and Color Differences Revealed on Ceres
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
March 22, 2016

Scientists from NASA's Dawn mission unveiled new images from the spacecraft's 
lowest orbit at Ceres, including highly anticipated views of Occator Crater, 
at the 47th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, 
Texas, on Tuesday.

Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles (92 kilometers) across and 2.5 miles 
(4 kilometers) deep, contains the brightest area on Ceres, the dwarf planet 
that Dawn has explored since early 2015. The latest images, taken from 
240 miles (385 kilometers) above the surface of Ceres, reveal a dome in 
a smooth-walled pit in the bright center of the crater. Numerous linear 
features and fractures crisscross the top and flanks of this dome. Prominent 
fractures also surround the dome and run through smaller, bright regions 
found within the crater.

"Before Dawn began its intensive observations of Ceres last year, Occator 
Crater looked to be one large bright area. Now, with the latest close 
views, we can see complex features that provide new mysteries to investigate," 
said Ralf Jaumann, planetary scientist and Dawn co-investigator at the 
German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin. "The intricate geometry of the 
crater interior suggests geologic activity in the recent past, but we 
will need to complete detailed geologic mapping of the crater in order 
to test hypotheses for its formation."

Color Differences

The team also released an enhanced color map of the surface of Ceres, 
highlighting the diversity of surface materials and their relationships 
to surface morphology. Scientists have been studying the shapes of craters 
and their distribution with great interest. Ceres does not have as many 
large impact basins as scientists expected, but the number of smaller 
craters generally matches their predictions. The blue material highlighted 
in the color map is related to flows, smooth plains and mountains, which 
appear to be very young surface features.

"Although impact processes dominate the surface geology on Ceres, we have 
identified specific color variations on the surface indicating material 
alterations that are due to a complex interaction of the impact process 
and the subsurface composition," Jaumann said. "Additionally, this gives 
evidence for a subsurface layer enriched in ice and volatiles."

Counting Neutrons

Data relevant to the possibility of subsurface ice is also emerging from 
Dawn's Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector (GRaND), which began acquiring its 
primary data set in December. Neutrons and gamma rays produced by cosmic 
ray interactions with surface materials provide a fingerprint of Ceres' 
chemical makeup. The measurements are sensitive to elemental composition 
of the topmost yard (meter) of the regolith.

In Dawn's lowest-altitude orbit, the instrument has detected fewer neutrons 
near the poles of Ceres than at the equator, which indicates increased 
hydrogen concentration at high latitudes. As hydrogen is a principal 
constituent 
of water, water ice could be present close to the surface in polar regions.

"Our analyses will test a longstanding prediction that water ice can survive 
just beneath Ceres' cold, high-latitude surface for billions of years," 
said Tom Prettyman, the lead for GRaND and Dawn co-investigator at the 
Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona.

The Mystery of Haulani Crater

But the subsurface does not have the same composition all over Ceres, 
according to data from the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR), 
a device that looks at how various wavelengths of sunlight are reflected 
by the surface, allowing scientists to identify minerals.

Haulani Crater in particular is an intriguing example of how diverse Ceres 
is in terms of its surface material composition. This irregularly-shaped 
crater, with its striking bright streaks of material, shows a different 
proportion of surface materials than its surroundings when viewed with 
the VIR instrument. While the surface of Ceres is mostly made of a mixture 
of materials containing carbonates and phyllosilicates, their relative 
proportion varies across the surface.

"False-color images of Haulani show that material excavated by an impact 
is different than the general surface composition of Ceres. The diversity 
of materials implies either that there is a mixed layer underneath, or 
that the impact itself changed the properties of the materials," said 
Maria Cristina de Sanctis, the VIR instrument lead scientist, based at 
the National Institute of Astrophysics, Rome.

Water at Oxo

Dawn scientists also reported in an LPSC scientific session that the VIR 
instrument has detected water at Oxo Crater, a young, 6-mile-wide 
(9-kilometer-wide) 
feature in Ceres' northern hemisphere. This water could be bound up in 
minerals or, alternatively, it could take the form of ice.

Jean-Philippe Combe of the Bear 

[meteorite-list] Wandering Jupiter Could Have Swept Inner Solar System Clean

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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/wandering-jupiter-could-have-swept-inner-solar-system-clean

Wandering Jupiter could have swept inner solar system clean

On its way out, infant planet left only enough debris for four small planets, 
simulation suggests

By Christopher Crockett
Science News
March 15, 2016

A wandering baby Jupiter could help explain why there are no planets closer 
to the sun than Mercury and why the innermost planet is so tiny, a new 
study suggests.

Jupiter's core might have formed close to the sun and then meandered 
through the rocky planet construction zone. As the infant Jupiter moved, 
it would have absorbed some planet-building material while kicking out 
the rest. This would have starved the inner planets - Mercury, Venus, 
Earth and Mars - of raw materials, keeping them small and preventing 
any other planets from forming close to the sun, say planetary scientist 
Sean Raymond and colleagues online March 5 in Monthly Notices of the Royal 
Astronomical Society.

"When I first came up with it, I thought it was ridiculous," says 
Raymond, of the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux in Floirac, France. 
"This model is kind of crazy, but it holds up."

Rocky planets snuggled up to their suns are common in our galaxy. Many 
systems discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope have multiple planets 
- several larger than Earth - crammed into orbits smaller than Mercury's. 
Though Kepler is biased toward finding scrunched-up solar systems, researchers 
wonder why there is a large gap between the sun and Mercury.

Scientists suspect that the inner planets of our solar system formed 4.6 
billion years ago from a belt of debris that stretched between the current 
orbits of Venus and Earth. Mercury and Mars were built out of material 
along the edges of this belt, which explains why they are relatively small. 
Jupiter, traditionally thought to have formed much farther out, gets the 
blame for creating the belt's outer edge. What shaped the inner edge 
has remained difficult to explain (SN Online: 3/23/15).

Raymond and colleagues ran computer simulations to see what would happen 
to the inner solar system if a body with three times the mass of Earth 
started inside Mercury's orbit and then migrated away from the sun. 
They found that if the interloper didn't move too fast or too slow, 
it would sweep clean the innermost parts of the disk of gas and dust that 
encircled the young sun and leave just enough material to form the rocky 
planets.

Raymond and colleagues also discovered that young Jupiter could have corralled 
enough debris to form a second core - one that got nudged away from 
the sun as Jupiter migrated.  This second core could be the seed from 
which Saturn grew, the researchers suggest. Jupiter's gravity could 
have dragged debris to the asteroid belt, too. Raymond says that might 
explain the origin of iron meteorites, which some researchers argue should 
have formed relatively close to the sun.

Jupiter plowing through the inner solar system sounds plausible, says 
Sourav Chatterjee, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, 
Ill. "But there are several ways this can go wrong."

Building a giant planet core inside the orbit of Mercury is not hard, 
he says. Pebbles and boulders in the nascent solar system probably drifted 
inward. They could have piled up close to the sun where solar magnetic 
fields created turbulence that trapped infalling material. If just a fraction 
of this debris stuck together, a rocky orb a few times as massive as Earth 
could form.

Having proto-Jupiter wander to the outer solar system, however, is asking 
a lot, says Chatterjee. Gravitational interactions with spiral waves in 
the disk that surrounded the sun can propel a newborn planet either inward 
or outward. But how fast, how far and in which direction the planet travels 
depends on properties such as disk temperature and density, which Raymond 
and colleagues readily acknowledge. Their simulations assume and simplify 
disk characteristics to see if building the solar system inside-out is 
even plausible.

"We're building up a logical chain that shows [this idea] is not completely 
crazy," Raymond says. "We're not saying it happened. Just if it 
happened, what would it do?"

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Re: [meteorite-list] Wandering Jupiter Could Have Swept Inner Solar System Clean

[MexicoDoug via Meteorite-list]

"Raymond says that might explain the origin of iron meteorites, which some 
researchers argue should have formed relatively close to the sun."

 "We're not saying it happened. Just if it happened, what would it do?"


H, and radioactive decay providing the heat for differentiation of all 
those different parent bodied iron meteorites? 

Or, how to we explain the 4.40 billion year old earth zircons found on Earth's 
surface in Australia? 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_dated_rocks#Oldest_terrestrial_material

We've had better pie-in-the-sky theories made up by list members-- and worse 
one too ;-)  With computers and discretional grants you can have transistors 
flip-flopping zillions of time testing theories that have no evidence, and they 
let you not only fit, but also publish your narrative!  

Let's grab a computer to show that not only *could* this be possible, but 
expand it, 

What if ... proto-life evolved on Jupiter when Jupiter was in Earth's place.  
Jupiter had several small moons at the time.  There was a collision and Jupiter 
began to migrate once we tweaked this just right.  Then, one small moon stayed 
behind as a result of the impact.  Some of the meteorites that fell on the moon 
continued the path to life while Jupiter got too cold and arrested the 
development and kept growing from material it slowly collected according to the 
theory.   Now the computer shows this is possible, we better publish that life 
may have started on Jupiter ... when Jupiter was where Earth is today, and 
Earth was but its moon.

"I'm not saying it happened.  Just if it happened, what would it do?" ;-)

Kind wishes
Doug

(Noting the journal has an average of only a 21 day review period from 
submission to a decision...also that the first author began his academic life 
as a math major in a small college in Maine and runs a press/publicity section 
on his website covering plenty more things like this ...)


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From: Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list 
To: Meteorite Mailing List 
Sent: Tue, Mar 22, 2016 6:54 pm
Subject: [meteorite-list] Wandering Jupiter Could Have Swept Inner Solar System 
Clean


https://www.sciencenews.org/article/wandering-jupiter-could-have-swept-inner-solar-system-clean

Wandering Jupiter could have swept inner solar system clean

On its way out, infant planet left only enough debris for four small planets, 
simulation suggests

By Christopher Crockett
Science News
March 15, 2016

A wandering baby Jupiter could help explain why there are no planets closer 
to the sun than Mercury and why the innermost planet is so tiny, a new 
study suggests.

Jupiter's core might have formed close to the sun and then meandered 
through the rocky planet construction zone. As the infant Jupiter moved, 
it would have absorbed some planet-building material while kicking out 
the rest. This would have starved the inner planets - Mercury, Venus, 
Earth and Mars - of raw materials, keeping them small and preventing 
any other planets from forming close to the sun, say planetary scientist 
Sean Raymond and colleagues online March 5 in Monthly Notices of the Royal 
Astronomical Society.

"When I first came up with it, I thought it was ridiculous," says 
Raymond, of the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux in Floirac, France. 
"This model is kind of crazy, but it holds up."

Rocky planets snuggled up to their suns are common in our galaxy. Many 
systems discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope have multiple planets 
- several larger than Earth - crammed into orbits smaller than Mercury's. 
Though Kepler is biased toward finding scrunched-up solar systems, researchers 
wonder why there is a large gap between the sun and Mercury.

Scientists suspect that the inner planets of our solar system formed 4.6 
billion years ago from a belt of debris that stretched between the current 
orbits of Venus and Earth. Mercury and Mars were built out of material 
along the edges of this belt, which explains why they are relatively small. 
Jupiter, traditionally thought to have formed much farther out, gets the 
blame for creating the belt's outer edge. What shaped the inner edge 
has remained difficult to explain (SN Online: 3/23/15).

Raymond and colleagues ran computer simulations to see what would happen 
to the inner solar system if a body with three times the mass of Earth 
started inside Mercury's orbit and then migrated away from the sun. 
They found that if the interloper didn't move too fast or too slow, 
it would sweep clean the innermost parts of the disk of gas and dust that 
encircled the young sun and leave just enough material to form the rocky 
planets.

Raymond and colleagues also discovered that young Jupiter could have corralled 
enough debris to form a second core - one that got nudged away from 
the sun as Jupiter migrated.  This second core could be the seed from 
which 

Re: [meteorite-list] Aztec, NM Meteorite questions

[Frank Cressy via Meteorite-list]

Forgot to hit "reply all" last night.  Here's what I sent to Dennis.

Frank


On Monday, March 21, 2016 7:59 PM, Frank Cressy  wrote:



Hi Dennis,

I researched Aztec for a book on US witnessed falls I'm writing (to be 
published this summer).  Very little information was available even in 
Nininger's files at ASU.  No information concerning the fireball was supplied 
by the finder, Mr. Dee Begay who found it about 30 miles south of Aztec on the 
Navajo Reservation.  Apparently it fell about 5 pm on Feb 1, 1938.  Begay 
contacted Nininger in March 1939 sending him a small sample of what he thought 
was a meteorite from this fall.  Nininger the bought the 2.8 kg stone for 
$12.50.  He cut off a specimen for his collection and the sold or traded the 
remainder to the Field Museum. That about all I have. (Nothing about the exact 
location of the stone was found at ASU).

All the best,

Frank



On Monday, March 21, 2016 6:18 PM, Dennis Miller via Meteorite-list 
 wrote:



Hello, All!  Living just 8 miles from Aztec, NM, thought that I might do a 
little
fragment hunting.  I have a few questions, though.  First, I have read that 
Harvey Nininger sent his wife, Addie, to Aztec to purchase the only stone.
Does anyone know who she purchased it from?  Second,  what was the
flight path?  And finally, does anyone have a small piece for sale?  
Thanks!  
Dennis  IMCA #1434
P.S.  Also looking for a piece of Four Corners meteorite.

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[meteorite-list] Fw: Aztec, NM Meteorite questions

[Frank Cressy via Meteorite-list]

Forgot to hit "reply all" last night.  Here's what I sent to Dennis.
Frank

 On Monday, March 21, 2016 7:59 PM, Frank Cressy  
wrote:
 

 Hi Dennis,
I researched Aztec for a book on US witnessed falls I writing (to be published 
this summer).  Very little information was available even in Nininger's files 
at ASU.  No information concerning the fireball was supplied by the finder, Mr. 
Dee Begay who found it about 30 miles south of Aztec on the Navajo Reservation. 
 Apparently it fell about 5 pm on Feb 1, 1938.  Begay contacted Nininger in 
March 1939 sending him a small sample of what he thought was a meteorite from 
this fall.  Nininger the bought the 2.8 kg stone for $12.50.  He cut off a 
specimen for his collection and the sold or traded the remainder to the Field 
Museum. That about all I have. (Nothing about the exact location of the stone 
was found at ASU).
All the best,
Frank
 

On Monday, March 21, 2016 6:18 PM, Dennis Miller via Meteorite-list 
 wrote:
 

 Hello, All!  Living just 8 miles from Aztec, NM, thought that I might do a 
little
fragment hunting.  I have a few questions, though.  First, I have read that 
Harvey Nininger sent his wife, Addie, to Aztec to purchase the only stone.
Does anyone know who she purchased it from?  Second,  what was the
flight path?  And finally, does anyone have a small piece for sale?  
Thanks!  
Dennis  IMCA #1434
P.S.  Also looking for a piece of Four Corners meteorite.

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