[meteorite-list] Tornado snatches 1, 000 pound pallasite meteorite

[Darren Garrison]

On Sun, 6 May 2007 17:35:04 EDT, you wrote:

>If you look at photo #12  here:
>
>http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/050507tornadoaerials/
>
>In  the center of the picture about 1/6 of the way up from the bottom there 
>is what  looks like the 2 ft x 3 ft oak stand (possibly tipped over) that the 
>1,000  pound meteorite used to sit on.  Something is still on the stand, but it 
> might be debris.  But, just to the left of the stand is a big brown  blob.  
>I think that is the meteorite.  However, the brown blob might  be the old 
>buffalo skin that was kept in the same room as the  meteorite.
>

I think you're right about that lower object.  And another brown blob just
behind and to the right of the stand could be the buffalo skin:

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/debris.jpg