[meteorite-list] 80th Anniversary of the arrival of a Green Alien from Space!

[MexicoDoug]

Norm you tektite trailblazer! Glad Africa hasn't swallowed you up! 
Thanks for the comments referring to me -- You made my day with that 
uplifting surprise - if you only knew what was on our plate you'd 
appreciate how perfect a gesture it was. Now, I wonder if you wanted a 
three-stone green piece of jewelry made for a special occasion. 
Obviously the finest emeralds would go around the border as filler 
support to frame the pièce de résistance, but, would a moldavite 
(exquisitely sculpted) or a diogenite (a finely impact-pressed 
Tatahouine of course) be the centerpiece bolstered by the others?

Interesting you posted the times for the romantics among us: Note to 
those who want a meteorite which fell on a particular anniversary date 
- but can't get one. A day earlier or later may actually be your 
special date depending where in the world it fell!

Yes, we should celebrate all the June/July diogenite birthdays and 
above all Tatahouine! Here's my contribution from the best time of my 
life - carpe diem to all !!! If only that night could have lasted 
forever ...

http://www.diogenite.com/dio.htm

Diogenetically yours in stone
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: Norm Lehrman <nlehrman at nvbell.net>
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Sun, Jun 26, 2011 11:16 am
Subject: [meteorite-list] 80th Anniversary of the arrival of a Green 
Alien from Space!


Listoids,  Sorry if this is a double posting.  I didn't receive the 
first try,
so this is attempt 2---

June 27, 1931, 0130 hours, Foum Tatahouine, Tunisia
June 26, 2030 hours, New York
June 26, 1830 hours, Denver
June 26, 1730 hours, Spokane

In just a few hours it will be 1:30 AM, June 27 in Tunisia (but I am 
not going
to stay up for it as that will be 3:30AM at my present location in East
Africa).  It’s a clear starry night at a balmy 24C/75F in Tunisia, much 
like the

night in 1931.

Eighty years ago today, after a very long voyage from a spaceport 
believed to be


located in the south pole crater of asteroid 4 Vesta, a green alien 
shattered
into tiny bits against the earth’s atmosphere.  The fragments rained 
down about
2 ½ miles NE of Foum Tatahouine, Tunisia.

On the same month and day, but differing numbers of years later, a 
couple of
additional aliens survived re-entry and are quietly living amongst 
other
earthlings to this day.  Happy birthday, my diogenite brother Doug Dawn 
(aka
MexicoDoug)!  Happy earth-arrival anniversary Tatahouine!

A great place to catch up on the story of Tatahouine is Doug’s website:
(www.diogenite.com/tata1.htm)

My favourite factoid regarding the green meteorite is the common 
presence of
tiny shatter-cone horsetails decorating the coarse pyroxene crystals.  
A
question for those more knowledgeable than I on impact cratering: could 
these
shattercones have formed during the event that ejected the material 
from its
source crater or are they artifacts of earlier impacts in the same 
location?

Best regards,
Norm Lehrman
www.tektitesource.com
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