[meteorite-list] Plymouth Meteorite

[Regine P.]

Interesting. I was actually referring to Keyser's son - here is small clipping I uploaded from a Scientific American clipping of 1895:

http://spiralmemoprintsales.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_06.html




--- Phil Whitmer <prairiecactus at rtcol.com> schrieb am Mi, 7.3.2012:

> Von: Phil Whitmer <prairiecactus at rtcol.com>
> Betreff: [meteorite-list] Plymouth Meteorite
> An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Datum: Mittwoch, 7. März, 2012 07:15 Uhr
> Regine:
> 
> I remembered the story incorrectly.
> 
> J.J. Keyser's age was not given when he found the Plymouth
> meteorite. According to Buchwald, he probably plowed it up
> in 1883. Ward gives the probably incorrect date of discovery
> as 1893 in his later catalogues. The story I heard was that
> Keyser gave or traded the meteorite (estimated by Buchwald
> at 13 to 15 kg as the actual weight was never recorded by
> Ward) to the Plymouth Oliver plow dealer where it sat on a
> desk on display in an office.
> 
> Somehow Ward caught wind of an iron meteorite in Plymouth. I
> think maybe a relative of the plow dealer contacted him, I
> forget the details. Ward later cut up and sold the
> meteorite. I got to handle the Field Museum's Plymouth
> meteorite when Dr. Ed Olsen pulled it out of a drawer
> amongst about a hundred pounds of Murchison. There were
> piles of slices everywhere. My uncle and I talked
> extensively to Dr. Olsen about the meteorite. He shared
> several insights.
> 
> Mr. Keyser told Ward about a larger meteorite in the same
> field, discovered in 1872. It was so big he was getting
> tired of plowing around it with his team of horses, so he
> and his son completely buried it, probably three or four
> feet deep, beneath the reach of the mold-board plow. (I'm
> assuming it was an Oliver plow, made in South Bend, Indiana)
> In 1894 Ward searched the field with a compass but found
> nothing. You would think he would have used a probe in areas
> where Keyser remembered burying the larger mass.
> 
> The field has been extensively searched by many people using
> a variety of equipment. All searches have turned up nothing
> but bolts, bits of wire, nails, and other such stuff.
> 
> 
> Phil Whitmer
> 
> 
> -------------------
> It sounded so strange to me. But I do not know Nowak so I
> thought I'd ask before dismissing it. The original account
> of the guy living on the farm does on the other hand not
> sound completely absurd to me - he was not an old man when
> reporting to Ward in 1895. They went searching together.
> 
> Regine
> 
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