[meteorite-list] Even more of that darned Brenham

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi all - 

It is possible that the Brenham impact is related to
the Five Nations' tradition of the Flying Heads
(Whirlwinds), but a problem here is that this
tradition is reliably (by wampum bead count) dated to
200-250 CE, while the one radio carbon date given for
Brenham is 47 BCE.

If you find any organic remains while digging up the
pieces there, please document them exactly and store
them in plastic baggies.  

happy hunting,
EP



--- Gerald Flaherty <grf2 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Boy if this keeps up maybe I'll be able to afford a
> nice slice of a Brenham 
> Pallasite
> Jerry Flaherty
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
> To: "Meteorite List"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 2:27 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Even more of that darned
> Brenham
> 
> 
> A rotted/"puzzle piece" new main mass?  Photo on
> site
> 
> http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/14956160.htm
> 
> Posted on Mon, Jul. 03, 2006
> 
> KIOWA COUNTY DISCOVERY
> 
> Newfound meteorite may be among largest
> 
> BY BECCY TANNER
> The Wichita Eagle
> 
> Don Stimpson thinks he has found a new meteorite
> crater in a Kiowa County 
> field
> that was thought to have been largely cleared of
> meteorites.
> 
> The public can get a look at what he found Saturday
> during the town of
> Haviland's meteorite festival.
> 
> If testing confirms that the field is an impact
> site, Stimpson said, it's a
> "pretty big discovery."
> 
> "I'm as excited as can be about this new discovery,"
> he said.
> 
> Stimpson and the field's owner, Paul Ross, used a
> giant metal detector 
> recently
> to locate a number of rocks that together may make
> up one of the largest
> meteorites of its kind.
> 
> Stimpson said the metal detector's sound was so loud
> that he thought they 
> had
> found the remains of an old, rusty culvert.
> 
> Ross took a shovel, dug down and turned over a piece
> of meteorite.
> 
> "We dug and dug and brought up a 250-pound
> meteorite," Stimpson said. "And 
> then
> we looked, and there was another one there. We dug
> it out and... well, wait 
> a
> minute, there is more. We brought 1,500 pounds of
> meteorite from that one 
> hole."
> 
> Last fall, professional meteorite-hunter Steve
> Arnold found a 
> record-breaking
> 1,400-pound meteorite two miles southeast of Ross'
> land.
> 
> The Brenham meteorites, named for Brenham Township
> near Haviland, fell some
> 20,000 years ago.
> 
> They are some of the best-known and sought-after in
> the world for their
> crystals, which look like stained glass when cut.
> 
> They are known as pallasites and are extremely rare.
> 
> David Alexander, a Wichita State University physics
> professor whose 
> specialty is
> astronomy, said that if Stimpson's find proves to be
> a single meteorite, it
> would be the largest pallasite ever found.
> 
> One way to tell whether it is an impact site,
> Alexander said, is if the 
> bedrock
> below is shattered.
> 
> Stimpson said the bottom of the crater has a thick
> layer of rust about 20 
> feet
> in diameter.
> 
> "We do not know how far it extends," he said. "I'll
> keep working on the site 
> as
> long as I can and submit a scientific paper with my
> data when we are 
> finished."
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