[meteorite-list] Smallest Meteorite

Anne Black impactika at aol.com
Wed Dec 5 19:24:39 EST 2012


Thank you Alan.
Yamato 8333: collected by the members of the National Institute of 
Polar Research, Japan, in 1983. Classified as an H5, and only 10mg 
(0.010g) according to the Met Bulletin Database.
I supposed the only reason it was found is that it stood out, so to 
speak, on white or blue ice.
Thanks.


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Rubin <aerubin at ucla.edu>
To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; Anne Black 
<impactika at aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Dec 5, 2012 4:59 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Smallest Meteorite


As Jeff Grossman uncovered, the smallest object named byu the 
NMomenclature
Committee is Y 8333 which weighs 12 mg.  It corresponds to a particle 
about
2 mm in diameter.


Alan Rubin
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
University of California
3845 Slichter Hall
603 Charles Young Dr. E
Los Angeles, CA  90095-1567
phone: 310-825-3202
e-mail: aerubin at ucla.edu
website: http://cosmochemists.igpp.ucla.edu/Rubin.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Black" <impactika at aol.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 3:49 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Smallest Meteorite


> Hello,
>
> This question came up on another forum.
> What is the smallest meteorite known?  And I mean: still recognizable
> (classifiable) as a meteorite.
> And no, I am not talking about the highly questionable 
micrometeorites
> supposedly found in gutters.
>
> I am sure one of you will know the answer!!
> Thanks.
>
>
> Anne M. Black
> www.IMPACTIKA.com
> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
>
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