[meteorite-list] 100 year old meteorite story from Sweden

[Ingo Herkstroeter]

>Hi Folks!
 
> "If this is the stone I'm thinking of, Zenzen,
> who was head of the Sweden Geological Survey
> or Museum, or equivalent official and a prominent
> geologist, wrote extensively on it. The witness
> account is perfectly consistently with "the real
> thing" and the stone is fossilerous limestone."

I think this indicates a new question: Are sedimentary meteorites
possibible?

People mostly don´t think about this problem and so this problem don´t
exist! We all knew, that we have rocks from Mars, but this rocks are "only"
igneous! Why most people don´t accept, that sedimantary rocks could be hard
enough to survive a impact (and this is the main problem) and become
meteorites? I don´t know how many of you ever piced up a hammer and go out
in the field to have a look to terrestrial rocks. I´ve made this since I´m 8
years old and I´ve seen a lot of sed. rocks hard enough to do so. There are
sed. rocks on the Mars that´s sure, so why not a Mars sandstone or
limestone?

And what´s about planetary metamorphic rocks (not shock met.).............?

Just a few wild thoughts

Ingo/Germany

--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly at bhil.com>
> An: caubeck at gmail.com, Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] 100 year old meteorite story from Sweden
> Datum: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 19:17:18 -0500
> 
> Hi,
> 
>     You're probably referring to:
> 
>     BLECKENSTAD,
>     Ostergotland, Sweden, April 11, 1925
> 
> "A meteor was observed, leaving a trail
> of smoke. Stones are said to have
> fallen, and fragments of a white, porous
> limestone were picked up, differing from
> the local rocks. The possibly meteoritic
> nature of this material has been the subject
> of considerable discussion, N. Zenzen
> (1942, 1943); A. Hadding (1943); F.C. Cross
> (1947). Pseudometeorite, F.E. Wickman
> & A. Uddenberg-Anderson (1982)."
> 
>     If this is the stone I'm thinking of, Zenzen,
> who was head of the Sweden Geological Survey
> or Museum, or equivalent official and a prominent
> geologist, wrote extensively on it. The witness
> account is perfectly consistently with "the real
> thing" and the stone is fossilerous limestone.
>     All that happened is that he ruined his
> reputation and lost his job. Sad. I posted a
> long investigation report about it and it may
> still be in the archives if they go back far
> enough.
>     The explanation is blindingly simple.
> It's a "terrestrial" meteorite., blasted off the
> Earth by impact and returned to the Earth
> 100,000's of years later, instead of wandering
> the System or ending up on Mars or Venus...
>     The simulations of interplanetary transport
> by Melosh, Gladman, and others, always
> show a fair percentage of impact "liberated"
> materials returning to their world of origin.
>     Nininger found a fossilliferous meteorite
> too, with a thin calcinated fusion crust and
> wrote, briefly, about it, but he, unlike Zenzen,
> knew when to shut up.
> 
> 
> Sterling K. Webb
> ----------------------------------------------
> chris aubeck wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Last year, on September 21st, I received a reply on this list from
> > Göran Axelsson which ended, enigmatically:
> >
> > "As a sidenote there were a meteorite found in sweden almost 100 years
> > ago with fossiles in it. Anyone want to debunk that one?
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > /Göran"
> >
> > I was seriously interested in seeing a copy of the original article,
> > but unfortunately Mr. Axelsson didn't reply. Can anyone tell me
> > anything about it? This is exactly what I collect and study.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Chris
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