[meteorite-list] Greensburg Pallasite

[Jonathan Gore]

Sorry if this is a duplicate, my original post hasn't appeared for some 
reason.

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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