[meteorite-list] What are the latest Iron Falls?

[Meteoriteshow]

Hi,

I always wondered why so few irons have been found so far in the Sahara
Desert... I think that as most of the time they are heavier than OCs, the
ones that landed over there are still under the surface, waiting fo erosion
to make them appearing... Another solution I thought of is that most of them
have been used in the prehistoric time for making tools, as the first iron
tools to be made after the neolithic period were most probably made of
meteoritic material...
Does anybody have any other suggestion?

Cheers,

Frédéric Beroud
www.meteoriteshow.com
IMCA # 2491 (http://www.meteoritecollectors.org/)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arizona Skies Meteorites" <johnbirdsell at yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What are the latest Iron Falls?


> Yes Martin, that is a gorgous piece with a beautiful
> rolled back lip. It is striking just how few iron
> falls there actually are. There must be thousands of
> chondritic falls over the same time span. It just goes
> to show that the rare desert irons that are coming out
> now reflect hundreds of thousands of years of
> accumulation. Once these have been picked clean we'll
> have a long time to wait for an equally rich hunting
> environment ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
>
> -John
>
>
> --- Martin Altmann <Altmann at Meteorite-Martin.de>
> wrote:
> > Not to forget the killer iron Ali Hmani had in
> > Munich,
> > must be a recent fall with that blueish fresh crust.
> > You can see him, holding that iron in the latest
> > Meteorite Magazine issue,
> > in Pilski's show report.
> >
> > Meow!
> > Martin
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
> > To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:11 PM
> > Subject: [meteorite-list] What are the latest Iron
> > Falls?
> >
> >
> > > 1. What were the last 3 to 5 recorded iron
> > > falls around the world? Does it include SA?
> >
> > Kaposfüred - IVA - Hungary - 1995
> > Ban Rong Du - Thailand - 1993
> > Sterlitamak - IIIAB - former USSR - 1990
> > Chisenga - Malawi - 1988
> > Raghunathpura - IIAB - India - 1986
> > Akyumak - IVA - Turkey - 1981
> > Ningbo - IVA - China - 1975
> > Juromenha - IIIAB - Portugal - 1968
> > Muzaffarpur - IRANOM - India - 1964
> > Bogou - IAB - Upper Volta - 1962
> > Kayakent - IIIAB - Turkey - 1961
> > Yardymly - IIICD - former USSR - 1959
> > Sikhote-Alin - IIAB - former USSR - 1947
> >
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Bernd
> >
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