[meteorite-list] Pallasite ID

[Michael Farmer]

Brenham, plain and simple. note the rounded crystals,
large metal, poor quality of the crystals. Brenham was
the only widely available pallasite at that time.
Mike Farmer

--- Jim Strope <nwa482 at comcast.net> wrote:


> Good Morning Listees.........

> 

> Anyone want to take a stab at identifying the

> meteorite in the following 

> photos.  The owner said that it was purchased from

> Ward's Scientific in the 

> late 1960s and identified as an Odessa.

> 

>

http://www.catchafallingstar.com/images/apallasitea.jpg

> 

>

http://www.catchafallingstar.com/images/apallasiteb.jpg

> 

>

http://www.catchafallingstar.com/images/apallasitec.jpg

> 

> Thanks in advance...........

> 

> Jim Strope

> 421 Fourth Street

> Glen Dale, WV  26038

> 

> http://www.catchafallingstar.com

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Notkin" <geoking at notkin.net>

> To: "Meteorite List"

> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:41 AM

> Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: Treasure Hunters

> 

> 

> Dear Listees:

> 

> Greetings comrades.

> 

> Just returned late last night from our

> Brenham/Glorieta documentary

> shoot: sunburned, bruised, scratched, and battered,

> but what a great

> experience. Our Travel Channel host, the glamorous

> Becky Worley, jumped

> right into the action and was digging holes, riding

> ATVs, swinging

> metal detectors, and generally working her way

> through an intense

> meteorite-hunting apprenticeship in 48 hours flat.

> She's a knockout.

> 

> Thanks to Mark and Ruben for posting their photos of

> our expedition.

> I'll post my own as soon as I can. Mark Bostick and

> his bro came all

> the way down from Wichita for the dig on Thursday.

> It was good to see

> some friendly faces and I appreciate the nice web

> presentation he put

> together.

> 

> 

> In other news: this Besednice character is a real

> corker isn't he? He's

> gotta be just a fake ID, or a troll right? With a

> name like that I'm

> putting my money on Jim Strope or Dave Andrews

> having some fun with us.

> 

> Thaddeus Besednice posted:

> 

> > Oh great - another glorification of looting (relic

> hunting)!

> 

> A relic is generally assumed to be a product of, or

> an item

> specifically associated with, human culture and

> history (i.e. an

> ancient religious relic), so it doesn't really work

> with a meteorite.

> Also, how can you be looting something when its

> owner (the landowner)

> has expressly asked you to excavate it from his own

> property? Answer me

> that, Mr. Moldavite.

> 

> 

> > Do Any of the Brenham pits get at least a cursory

> record of their possible 

> > prehistoric components?

> 

> They're not pits, silly. The Brenhams are completely

> buried, way, way

> underground, a bit like your conscience. An "impact

> pit" is a modest

> surface indentation made by a meteorite which is too

> small (or

> traveling too slowly) to produce an actual crater. I

> suggest reading

> Mr. Norton's "Rocks from Space" where you can learn

> some other helpful

> meteorite terms, and then use them at parties.

> 

> FYI, Steve meticulously records the depth,

> orientation, GPS

> coordinates, and other detailed info for every

> single find. A

> scientific study (in association with a prominent

> geologist on the

> List) is underway to determine the true age of the

> fall. I can't wait!

> IMO the Brenham fall took place more recently than

> many of us think.

> 

> In addition, valuable and detailed strewnfield data

> is being collected

> with each new find. The area around each excavated

> Brenham is carefully

> checked for meteorite fragments, as well as the

> flattened, fossilized

> carcass of an ancient Kansas plains camel, big sabre

> tooth kitty, or -- 

> if we're super lucky -- Thaddeus Besednice himself.

> Steve is REALLY

> hoping that directly beneath one of the big irons he

> will discover a

> wafer-thin buffalo mummy. Imagine how much that

> would go for on eBay!

> 

> 

> >  I'm justifiably and unassailably an enemy of the

> irresponsible, 

> > counterscientific, hobbyist attitudes glorified by

> certain people and 

> > uncritically tolerated by others (accomplices).

> 

> Good lord that's fabulous. A sentence worthy of

> Thomas Pynchon! Yes,

> that would be me, one of the accomplices. I know

> you're just jealous

> you big Moldavite.

> 

> 

> > No, we don't need degrees to collect lumps of

> asteroids, planets, and 

> > comets, but a bit of respect for irreplacable

> biological taxa and cultural 

> > residues would make us more than drooling,

> avaricious freebooters.

> 

> Unfortunately, most of the eminent scientists with

> degrees are too busy

> with classifications, new papers, and important lab

> work to go

> scurrying around in the mud with us, but we're happy

> to do our part. I

> do agree with you though -- think of all the

> "irreplacable biological

> taxa" that resides at the bottom of a hole in a

> field in a Kansas farm!

> If you want to come out and study it, I'll be happy

> to hand you a

> shovel.

> 

> Anyway, just to contradict you one more time, Steve

> has had recognized

> academics up to Brenham to inspect the

> work-in-progress, notably the

> excellent Dr. Art Ehlmann of the Oscar Monnig

> Gallery, TCU.

> 

> I know this guy Besednice is just a gag by someone,

> but replied for the

> sake of some List members who might think this clown

> is a real person.

> 

> Good joke though  : )

> 

> 

> Yours in freebooting asteroids,

> 

> Geoff Notkin

> (Arnold accomplice and part-time henchman)

> 

> www.aerolite.org

> Rockin' Tucson

> 

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