Hello José, Martin, List:
OLD WOMAN METEORITE (Sky Telescope, Vol. 54-3, Sep 1997, p. 192):
A three-ton meteorite recently discovered in the Old Woman Mountains of
California is the
second largest ever found in the United States, outranked only by the 16-ton
Willamette,
Oregon, meteorite known since 1902. The Old Woman fall is a mass of nickel-iron
weighing
6,080 pounds (2,758 kilograms) and measuring 4-by-3-by-21/2 feet
(1.2-by-0.9-by-0.8 meters),
according to newspaper accounts. It fell, presumably several centuries ago, in
an inaccessible
desert area 170 miles east of Los Angeles. There it was spotted in March,
1976, by three gold
prospectors. They sent chips to the Griffith Observatory and the University of
California at Los
Angeles, where the meteoritic nature of the object was confirmed. Word of the
discovery reached
Roy S. Clarke, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C. The U.S.
Bureau of Land Management determined that the find had been made on federal
land, and gave
possession of the meteorite to the Smithsonian. The nickel-iron mass lay wedged
among boulders
up a dry wash between two mountain slopes. On June 17th, the meteorite was
airlifted from this
spot by U.S. Marine Corps helicopter, which carried it seven miles to the
nearest road. Until the
end of June, the Old Woman meteorite was on public display at Riverside,
California, and then it
was sent to the Smithsonian Institution for scientific study.
FUTRELL D.S.(1998) My visit with the Old Woman (Meteorite!, Feb 98, Vol. 4-1,
pp. 34-35).
NORTON O.R. (1994) The Old Woman Meteorite (Rocks From Space I, 1994,
pp.252-255).
NORTON O.R. (1998) The Old Woman Meteorite (Rocks From Space II, 1994,
pp.252-255, 214).
Best regards,
Bernd
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