[meteorite-list] Greensburg Pallasite
Jonathan Gore
jonathan301 at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 25 16:48:30 EST 2004
Impactika at aol.com wrote:
> Since the List is very quiet today, here is a question a friend of mine sent
> to me:
> ---------------
> but I'm curious, what do you know about the ("fabled"?) Greensburg, KS,
> meteorite, supposedly a pallasite? I see (from the internet) that the town claims
> this as the "world's largest pallasite" (they usually mis-spell it pallisite),
> though reliable sources rather say that Esquiel, Argentina (owned by Robert
> Haag) has that honor.
I've always heard that the KS meteorite(?) weighed ~1000lb while Esquel
weighed ~1500kg (1500kg is much more than 1000lb). That's about all I know.
Clear skies,
Jonathan
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