[meteorite-list] Prospecting for meteorites

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi,

    For List members not familiar with the Chinguetti story,
see this web page (and following pages) which recount the story:
<http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/E/ends/meteorite1.html>

    Theodore Monad's paper:
<http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989CRASM.309..547M>

    A picture of the supposed fragment:
<http://www.meteoritestudies.com/protected_CHINGUET.HTM>

    Google will get you 432 hits if you want more...

    Its existence is still a controversy. Oddly, the supposed fragment
is widely accepted as a "real" meteorite, while the mass from which
it was removed is not, which seems a little paradoxical.


Sterling K. Webb
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bernd.pauli at paulinet.de wrote:

> "I dream to find a similar one, somewhere ... if anyone has a clue
> where to prospect, please share it with me, off list, other wise
> I will have to charter a 380!"
>
> Bonjour Michel, hello List,
>
> The enormous Chinguetti main mass (said to be 100 m long and 45 m high)
> in the desert of Adrar (Mauritania) is still waiting for you to go and
> get it  ;-)
>
> Bernd
>
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