[meteorite-list] Which came first the chicken or the egg?

[Frank Cressy]

Shawn,

I think you've misinterpreted your source a bit.  It says that Calcalong Creek 
was found AFTER 1960.  As I remember it Millbillillie fell in 1960, but no 
meteorites from that fall were found until the early 1970s.  Many stones were 
found in the 70s and 80s and are still being found today.  There is no data as 
far as I know as to when Calcalong Creek was actually picked up.  Haag found 
Calcalong Creek in a box of Millbillillie stones stones he purchased in1990 or 
1991 and he recognized it as "different" then.  Unless you can say exactly when 
Calcalong Creek was picked up I think you have to go with ALHA81005 as the first 
lunar.

Cheers,

Frank



----- Original Message ----
From: Shawn Alan <photophlow at yahoo.com>
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Tue, April 26, 2011 5:59:05 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Which came first the chicken or the egg?

Hello Listers

The question is which came first the chicken or the eggs? Well lets get back to 
the but I have a better one, which came first Calcalong Creek Lunar or ALHA81005 
Lunar ? Sources and research states that ALHA81005 was the first Lunar 
meteorite. But how can that be? Calcalong Creek meteorite was recovered by an 
Aborigine meteorite hunter in the Millbillillie strewnfield in 1960 ish and 
discovered by Robert Haag in 1990 ish. Now wouldn't the statement make more 
since if it read like this.......

Calcalong Creek meteorite was the first discovered Lunar meteorite and ALHA81005 
was the first classified Lunar meteorite? 


These sources state this........

ALHA81005

Whats special about this one?

It's the first rock found on Earth recognized to be a meteorite from the Moon. 
Compositionally, mineralogically, and texturally it is unlike any other lunar 
meteorite.

http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/stones/alha81005.htm


Calcalong Creek

Whats special about this one?

It was the first lunar meteorite to have been found outside of Antarctica.
It is the only lunar meteorite to have been found in Australia.

http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/stones/calcalong.htm


I would say the links are partly right but feel that Calcalong Creek should also 
say that it was the first found Lunar meteorite. 


So now what came first Calcalong Creek or ALHA81005 or can we say the chicken?


Shawn Alan 
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