[meteorite-list] Mazapil

[bernd.pauli at paulinet.de]

Hello Svend, Doug, Mark Vacationer, and List,

> It was the same night that the Andromedid meteor shower underwent
> a spectacular outburst. The simultaneity of these two events has
> driven speculation ever since that the meteorite was a fragment
> from Periodic Comet Biela, the parent comet of the Andromedid shower.
> However, refering to Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37 (2002) the
> occurrence of the two events were purely coincidental.

FYI, this is the article that Svend is referring to:

BEECH Martin (2002) The Mazapil meteorite: From paradigm
to periphery (MAPS 37-5, 2002 May, pp. 649-660).

.. and, of course, there is the unsurpassable Vagn Buchwald:

BUCHWALD, V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Volume 2, pp. 808-813.

Some more pertinent references:

HIDDEN W.E. (1887) On the Mazapil meteoric iron, which
fell November 27th, 1885 (Am. J. Sci. 33, pp. 221-226).

HARVEY A. (1904) Shooting stars versus uranoliths with special reference
to the Mazapil (Mexico) meteorite (Selected Papers and Proceedings of the
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, ed. A. Harvey, pp. 30-51, Z.M. Collins,
Toronto, Canada).

WYLIE C.C. (1933) The temperature of the Mazapil
meteorite (Popular Astronomy 41, pp. 408-410).


Best wishes,

Bernd