[meteorite-list] Ad Rare fall for sale/Tree smasher

[Darryl Pitt]

Mike's anecdote is far from anecdotal....

I was in Bandung Indonesia obtaining samples of Banten and other  
Indonesian exotics when the museum curator attempted to remove what  
was at least 95% of the single mass of Meester-Cornelis from what  
appeared to be a tropical fish tank filled with a translucent, amber- 
colored oil.

While M-C appeared completely solid, we were shocked when his hand  
literally passed through the meteorite and cloudy wisps of material  
ever-so-slowly began to settle to the bottom of the tank.

Lesson #798:  do not keep stoney meteorites in a petroleum distillate  
for....tens(?) of years.

best/ d


michael brecker's pilgrimage on npr
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10459940



On May 29, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Mike Jensen wrote:


> Hi all

> I am offering some small pieces of a really unusual and older fall. It

> is Meester-Cornelis which fell June 2, 1915 in Indonesia. This is an

> exceptionally hard to get fall because the main mass has been

> lost...well sort of. I was told that the main mass was stored in a

> museum in Indonesia in a jar filled with oil. When it was removed the

> meteorite turned to sludge. These are not pieces of sludge but instead

> whole fragments. So the total repository weight for this one is less

> than 500 grams.

> I also found a fascinating story about its fall and subsequent

> recovery. Please read the story I have included below.

>

> Ref

> http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/metind.html

>

> <My translation from Marco Langbroek's text from above page>

>

> In the early morning hours of 2 June 1915 around 6.30 AM local time,

> in the village Duren Sawit, the sound of detonations were accompanied

> by the fall of a 24.75 kg stone. A witness who after hearing the

> detonations, a Mr Tajim and his son Siama, went outside and found a

> meteorite only 11 meters away from their house. They observed that the

> meteorite had demolished the branch of a tree and excavated a 1 meter

> deep and 35 cm wide crater. The crater location became, for very short

> time, a place of pilgrimage where the local population brought

> sacrifices to the meteorite, until the meteorite was confiscated the

> next day by an authority from Meester-Cornelis. The sound of

> detonations has been heard for a distance of 12 km. The angular

> character of the stone shows that there must be more fragments to  

> be found.

> The suggestion in the 'Catalogue of Meteorites' (M. Grady 2000) that

> the fall had possibly taken place on 2 August is incorrect. According

> to L.J.C. Van Es (1918), who personally visited the fall location on 3

> June 1915, the June 2 date is correct. The meteorite is a stone

> meteorite, chondrite from the H group with petrologic grade 5

> ("ordinary" chondrite with high iron quality and high degree of

> metamorphism).

>

> REF

> M. Grady (2000), Catalogue of Meteorites (5th edition), Cambridge

> University Press.

>

> L.J.C. Van Es (1918), Jaarboek van het Mijnwezen in Nederlandsch

> Oost-Indië 47, 21-40.

>

> I have several crumbs all in gel caps.

> One fragment lots 0.015g, 0.032g, 0.037g

> Two fragment lots 0.017g, 0.029

> Multi fragment lots) 0.033g, 0.043g, 0.068g

> $1500 per gram.

> For now I am going to limit your purchases to two lots per individual.

> If you want more let me know and I will let you know if there are any

> left over after the sale is finished.

> Mike

>

> --

> Mike Jensen

> Jensen Meteorites

> 16730 E Ada PL

> Aurora, CO 80017-3137

> 303-337-4361

> IMCA 4264

> website: www.jensenmeteorites.com

> ______________________________________________

> Meteorite-list mailing list

> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

>


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/attachments/20070529/5352d705/attachment-0001.htm>