[meteorite-list] Santa Catharina

[Zelimir Gabelica]

Hello Bernd, List,

Regarding the 28 kg of Santa Catharina from Antwerp university, yes, I well 
know the team in Antwerp who rediscovered this old piece of "iron" that 
later proved to be Santa Catharina.
One of the co-authors (Rik Dillen), relatively close friend, provided me in 
due time (1992) with further anecdotes related to this find and that were 
fully described in the reference Bernd is kindly providing.

More, at the Antwerp show that year (1992 I believe), Rik proposed me for 
sale some chunks of this famous iron.
I hardly started collecting meteorites at that time but felt there that I 
should take some of the fragments as they had a nice history behind. I did 
so and actually purchased the last 3 pieces left (all the others were 
rapidly sold out).
I traded one of them since but keep carefully the last 2 "metallic 
sections" (with no crust though) that involve very fresh brillant metallic 
faces (not iron shale) with various cracks.
Pieces weigh 58.3 and 26.3 grams. They definitely do not resembe the 
classical SC's.

I do not have photos done but can do it in a near future (through a friend 
as I am still exploring the present market trends for a digital camera 
purchase).
I can keep you informed.

For those attending "Ensisheim-2005" I can perhaps exhibit these 2 
fragments as fitting the theme (they had - indirectly - some impact on men) 
but also as curiosities.
We always wish that the exhibit presents something odd, unusual, with a 
funny side story behind....

Best,

Zelimir


A 20:24 03/01/05 +0000, vous avez écrit :
>Hi Marcin and List,
>
> > Im looking for photos of the iron part from Santa
> > Catharina Ataxite. Someone have specimen or photo?
>
>There are three photos you might want to look at:
>
>a) Cover photo: Meteorite Magazine, Feb 2000, Vol 6, No. 1.
>
>    It's b&w but fairly large and therefore shows some details.
>
>b) R. VAN TASSEL et al. (1992) An overlooked fragment of the
>    Santa Catharina ataxite (Meteoritics 27-4, 1992, 467-469).
>
>   This is an undocumented mass of 28 kg and resides at the State
>   University Center of Antwerp, Belgium. Maybe Zélimir has a photo
>   or would be able to get/take a close-up picture of this mass. The
>   b&w picture of a polished section in Meteoritics is rather smallish
>   (7.5 x 4 cm only).
>
>c) HAAG ROBERT (2003) The Robert Haag Collection of Meteorites
>   (Private Collection Edition, Tucson, Arizona): Color photograph
>   on page 19 of Bob Haag's 232-gram endcut.
>
>Unfortunately Bob is holding the cut surface slightly downward so that
>you can't see very much of the cut, etched and polished surface of this
>ataxite.
>
>Maybe you want to send him a mail asking him to take a close-up
>picture of his 232-gram mass.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Bernd
>
>To: marcin at meteoryt.net
>     meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>
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Prof. Zelimir Gabelica
Université de Haute Alsace
ENSCMu, Lab. GSEC,
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F-68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France
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