[meteorite-list] Santa Vitoria do Palmar meteorite finally official

[Matthias Bärmann]

Congratulations, Svend! You did a great job not at least telling the whole 
story - for those who didn't discover it yet:

http://www.niger-meteorite-recon.de/en/Santa-Vitoria-meteorite-1.htm

It's a real pleasute to read.

Ki nd regards,

Matthias



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <info at niger-meteorite-recon.de>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:33 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Santa Vitoria do Palmar meteorite finally official


To everybody interested & involved,

most of you already know that Meteoritical Bulletin N° 90 is out. The data 
base of the Bulletin has also been updated and we are happy to announce that 
the latest meteorite from Brazil, the beautiful unequilibrated Santa Vitoria 
do Palmar meteorite (L3), finally has become official.

Most of you will still remember the arguments on this list that accompanied 
the first news of the discoveries in Brazil. Only those who submitted 
meteorites themselves to the Meteoritical Society can imagine the relief the 
official status will bring. I can only encourage everybody to choose this 
long and sometimes winding road by submitting samples and complete find data 
to a classifying lab. Each piece of information will contribute to the 
knowledge transfer to coming generations.

Our honoured list member Larry Lebofsky, chief editor of Meteorite Magazine, 
was so kind to consider the publication of the complete story of the 
discoveries and the analysis of the Santa Vitoria do Palmar meteorite in the 
coming November issue. So everybody watch out for the coming issue and get a 
subscription if you aren't a subscriber yet.

We still keep three large slices of the SVdP meteorite, 600gm 175gm and 
145gm respectively, each with both, the shock-blackened and the light 
coloured unaltered lithology. We will gladly deal with requests of 
scientific institutions or public collections to enable further studies on 
this exceptional meteorite. Please contact us for more information.

I would like to thank everybody involved, especially Dr. Ansgar Greshake for 
his thorough classification as well as the finder Senor Correia and the 
curator of the Museo Municipal Cel. Tancredo F. de Mello, Brazil, Senor 
Monzon, for their countless contributions.

Best regards

Svend Buhl

www.niger-meteorite-recon.de
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