[meteorite-list] New Barwell acquisition

[Martin Goff]

Thanks Gary. The provenance is rock solid and the story is good too.
Very nice to be in correspondence with Jean and hear the story in her
own words, not often you get to chat with the finder of such a
historic find :-)

Cheers

Martin

On 4 September 2013 16:59, Gary Fujihara <fujmon at mac.com> wrote:
> Aloha Martin,
>
> Congratulations on your early Christmas (meteorite) present. The accompanying and substantiating documentation makes it all the more an exceptional acquisition.
>
> gary
>
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 5:49 AM, Martin Goff <msgmeteorites at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just wanted to show off my latest acquisition, a 93.54 gram specimen
>> of the famous Barwell meteorite. Barwell fell on 24th December 1965
>> and was witnessed by many people and is affectionately known as the
>> Christmas meteorite. It is the second largest of the UK meteorites
>> after the Wiltshire stone (Lake House) This particular stone was found
>> on the 6th January by Jean Ferguson (nee McKellar) who at the time was
>> the Keeper of Geology at the Leicester Museum and it has been in her
>> possession ever since. I am especially proud to have such a nice
>> specimen of this historic UK meteoite in my collection :-) Photos can
>> be seen at the link below:
>>
>> (https://www.flickr.com/photos/94515040@N03/sets/72157635382072632/)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> --
>> Martin Goff
>> www.msg-meteorites.co.uk
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Martin Goff
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