[meteorite-list] RFSPOD - Sep 18, 2010 - THe Elbogen Iron

[bernd.pauli at paulinet.de]

Mike B. wonders:

"It is also interesting that NHMV's label suggests that they do
not recognize Elbogen (ca. 1400) as the oldest iron fall. Why?"

 http://www.rocksfromspace.org/September_18_2010.html

Hello Mike and List,

They do not recognize Elbogen as the oldest iron fall because it is
*not* a witnessed fall. In his trilogy, Vagn Buchwald only wrote:

"the exterior shape of the mass certainly suggests a well-preserved fall.
..Elbogen was probably plowed up sometime around the year 1400 and
soon became associated with the simultaneous death (killing?) of one of
the hated burgraves."

Reference:

BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Volume 2, pp. 557-560.

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Cheers,

Bernd