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

[chris aubeck]

Hi list,

I was just wondering whether, more than a year on, anyone had come
across this story about a meteorite with fossilized remains inside. I
have an ongoing project to collect these stories, and any weirder ones
that emerge!

Best wishes,

Chris

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Re: [meteorite-list] 100 year old meteorite story from Sweden
by chris aubeck
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Hi Göran!

Ah, so it was one of those stories after all!

It sounds a lot like the Italian article I translated and mentioned in
my last post. A part of what I do is to follow these trends as they
spread across Europe, it helps build up an idea of how people first
became aware of the science that surrounded them.

If ever you can recall the date of the account I'd be fascinated to
know it and see how it fits into the general chronology of press
reports of the period.

Warm regards from Madrid,

Chris

On 9/6/05, Göran Axelsson <axelsson at acc....> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I haven't forget about you.
>
> I have tried to find the article again. It was publicised in a Swedish
> periodic called GFF, "Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholms Annaler", but I
> haven't been able to locate the note I made about which issue it was in.
> Two months ago I tried to find it in the storage of the library only to
> find that they had removed it from the storage.
> 120 years of geological articles only three minutes from home gone... :-(
>
> The article in it self was about a meteorite that was observed to fall
> in Sweden and found in a field. If my memory doesn't fail me it was
> still hot when found, black on the outside and full of fossiles.
> Actually it turned out to be a bit of burned limestone and it was
> debunked either at the end of the article or in a later issue.
>
> I haven't given up on finding that article again but it will take me
> some more effort to find it again. I'll let you know if I find it.
>
> Thanks for the link to the fossile meteorites, I hadn't seen that
> article before.
>
> As a sidenote, I was on a mineral tour to Jämtland in 2002 and we
> visited Brunflo to collect fossiles. As we knew of the fossile
> meteorites found in that quarry my interest were towards the meteorites.
> Suddenly I found a rusty ball in a stone. No one had seen anything like
> that, but after the first excitement had died down we started to realise
> that it probably was a pyrite ball, not a meteorite.
>
>  :-)
>
> /Göran
>
> 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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On 9/6/05, Göran Axelsson <axelsson at acc....> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I haven't forget about you.
>
> I have tried to find the article again. It was publicised in a Swedish
> periodic called GFF, "Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholms Annaler", but I
> haven't been able to locate the note I made about which issue it was in.
> Two months ago I tried to find it in the storage of the library only to
> find that they had removed it from the storage.
> 120 years of geological articles only three minutes from home gone... :-(
>
> The article in it self was about a meteorite that was observed to fall
> in Sweden and found in a field. If my memory doesn't fail me it was
> still hot when found, black on the outside and full of fossiles.
> Actually it turned out to be a bit of burned limestone and it was
> debunked either at the end of the article or in a later issue.
>
> I haven't given up on finding that article again but it will take me
> some more effort to find it again. I'll let you know if I find it.
>
> Thanks for the link to the fossile meteorites, I hadn't seen that
> article before.
>
> As a sidenote, I was on a mineral tour to Jämtland in 2002 and we
> visited Brunflo to collect fossiles. As we knew of the fossile
> meteorites found in that quarry my interest were towards the meteorites.
> Suddenly I found a rusty ball in a stone. No one had seen anything like
> that, but after the first excitement had died down we started to realise
> that it probably was a pyrite ball, not a meteorite.
>
>  :-)
>
> /Göran
>
> 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
> >______________________________________________
> >
> >