[meteorite-list] AD: USA Falls - Norton County & Petersburg

[Jeff Kuyken]

Interesting Norton piece Bob and well worth looking at the pics folks.

I was recently lucky enough to obtain a couple of nice Norton County pieces 
and found that I was quite surprised by them. I didn't know what I'd been 
missing all these years... it's a fascinating and unique meteorite! 
Certainly well worth reading up on.

Cheers,

Jeff


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Verish" <bolidechaser at yahoo.com>
To: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 7:03 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] AD: USA Falls - Norton County & Petersburg


> Hello again List,
>
> I have some auctions on eBay that are ending soon:
>
> <http://shop.ebay.com/bolide*chaser/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340>
>
> These can be considered historical USA FALLS:
>
> The PETERSBURG Meteorite.  This Achondrite - Polymict Eucrite type, Fell 
> to Earth on August 5th, 1855 at 15:30hrs, in Lincoln County, Tennessee, 
> USA.
> Petersburg, partslice (0.12 grams)
> <http://tinyurl.com/35hen2a>
>
> This ultra-rare, historical USA Fall has great provenance:  from Russ 
> Kempton at NEMS via the Michael Cottingham Meteorite Collection.
>
> ------------------------
>
> Norton County
> - Classified as AUBRITE  -
> -  (fragmental impact breccia) -
> - Fell across the Kansas-Nebraska state line - in 1948 - TKW >1.1MT
> - Impact BRECCIA fragment 7.92grams
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/NortonCounty>
> This specimen appears in the UNM Collection Catalog as "Specimen number = 
> N.15965 ":
> <http://epswww1.unm.edu/metcat/sample_output.php?samplename=NORTON%20COUNTY>
>
> Check-out the images on the auction site.
> All of the above specimens are now listed on eBay:
> <http://shop.ebay.com/bolide*chaser/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340>
>
> Hope you enjoy the images,
> Bob V.
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