[meteorite-list] The misplaced Murray Meteorite

JKGwilliam h3chondrite at cox.net
Wed Oct 27 01:30:55 EDT 2004


Below is a link to a gallery of meteorite images at Arizona State 
University.  There is a picture of the Murray meteorite here.
While you're there, take the time to look at their wonderful Rose City 
specimen.

<http://meteorites.asu.edu/gallery.htm>

Best,
JKGwilliam

At 10:11 PM 10/26/2004, JKGwilliam wrote:
>mt and List,
>Take a look in the Jensen Brother's book, (Anne too) "Meteorites from A to 
>Z", and you will see it listed as Calloway County, Kentucky.  Concurring 
>is Ken Regelman's book, " ARN's History of Meteorites."
>
>The "Catalog of Meteorites" 1985 edition from Arizona State University 
>also lists the location of this fall as Calloway County, Kentucky.
>
>Looks like there's a typo in the Catalog of Meteorites.
>
>
>Best,
>JKGwilliam
>
>
>At 09:19 PM 10/26/2004, McCartney Taylor wrote:
>>It appears Kentucky has a new meteorite.
>>
>>The Catalogue seems to have misplaced Murray (CM2). The Murray
>>meteorite is listed as Calloway County, TX. 36 36 N, 88 6 W.
>>
>>This location is not even in Texas.  In fact Texas doesn't have a
>>Calloway county.  Plotting the lat/longs on a homesearch give us:
>>
>>http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.aspx?Lon=-
>>88.1&Lat=36.6&w=1&ref=G|-88.1,36.6
>>
>>Which is Calloway, Kentucky.  Which makes more sense.  Can
>>anyone else confirm this strewnfield in in Kentucky?
>>
>>-mt
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