[meteorite-list] Souslovo, Beaver, Brenham, Plainview, etc.

[bernd.pauli at paulinet.de]

Hi All,

AL wrote: "The Beaver Meteorite was used to prop open a door at a local jail house for 
40 some years. Cost for the specimen was finding another stone that cold be use to prop
same door open which the buyer found in the form of a chunk of cement because rocks
in the area were non-existent."

PECK ELLIS (1979) The Fate of a Kansas Meteorite
Crater (Sky & Telescope, August 1979, pp. 126-128):

The rich farmland of Kiowa County, Kansas, is devoid of normal stones, but lots of odd,
heavy ones dotted it when homesteaders arrived there in the 1870's. Some of these strange
looking rocks were used to hold down rain-barrel covers, to anchor dugout roofs, or to plug
fence holes.

The first person to recognize these as meteorites was Eliza Kimberly, who moved to a farm
there in 1885 with her new husband, Frank. When she was a girl, her schoolteacher had
shown her class a meteorite that had fallen at Estherville, Iowa.


Best,

Bernd