New Campo del Cielo crater with 10 Tons of Meteorites Reportedly Found
Descubren nuevo cráter y meteorito de casi 10 toneladas en la zona
de Campo del Cielo. Norte. May 25, 2011,
http://www.diarionorte.com/noticia.php?numero=65726
“A recent scientific mission carried out by specialists of Santiago del
Estero and Chaco discovered an impact crater and associated with
it a meteorite weighing ten tons is estimated that dated back some
4,000 years.
The location of the crater is reported as latitude 27° 37’ 19.3” South,
61° 43’ 19.3” West. This crater is counted as 27 of the Campo del
Cielo strewn field. It is 17 by 32 meters and 0.7 meter deep.
Related article are:
Revocan expropiación del "Campo del cielo" por la propiedad del
"meteorito Chaco" [[Revoked expropriation of "Field of Heaven" by
ownership of the "meteorite Chaco"]] La Voz Ciudadanos, May 27, 2011
http://www.lavoz.com.ar/ciudadanos/revocan-expropiacion-campo-cielo-propiedad-meteorito-chaco
“La Corte revocó un fallo proveniente del Superior Tribunal de
Justicia chaqueño.”
“The Supreme Court set aside the expropriation of a large area of
territory in the province of Chaco, called "Field of Heaven", where
a meteorite hit some 4,000 years ago.”
“La Corte dejó sin efecto la expropiación de un campo en donde
cayó un meteorito” Centro de Información Judicial.
http://www.cij.gov.ar/nota-6872-La-Corte-dejo-sin-efecto-la-expropiacion-de-un-campo-en-donde-cayo-un-meteorito.html
Best wishes,
Paul H.
Zapotectite- what kinda name is that? Tikalites- Guatemala Tektites!
In "Zapotectite- what kinda name is that?" at
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2011-May/076972.html ,
Carl asked:
"They say some were found in Mayan Ruins?"
These tektites were found in Tikal, Guatemala.
Go read:
Hildebrand, A. R., 1994, Appendix H, Report on tektites around at
Tikal, in H. Moholy-Nagy, and W. A. Haviland, eds., p. 100-101,
Tikal Report: The Artifacts of Tikal, Part B, Utilitarian Artifacts and
Unworked Material. vol. 27, University Museum Publications, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 288 p.
Hildebrand, A. R., H. Moholy-Nagy, C. Koeberl, L. May, F. Senftle, A.
N. Thorpe, P. E. Smith, and D. York, 1994, Tektites around in the ruins
of the Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala. Abstracts of the 25th Lunar
and Planetary Science Conference, held in Houston, TX, 14-18 March
1994, p. 549.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc1994/pdf/1275.pdf
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1994LPI....25..549H
Senftle, F. E., A. N. Thorpe, J. R. Grant, A. Hildebrand, H. Moholy-Nagy,
B. J. Evans, and L. May, 2000, Magnetic measurements of glass from Tikal,
Guatemala: Possible tektites. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 105,
no. B8, pp. 18921-18926
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2000/2000JB900125.shtml
Tikal National Park, Guatemala
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikal
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/64
http://www.tikalpark.com/generalinfo.htm
Best wishes,
Paul H.
OT: Photographs Raining From the Sky After Tornadoes
Dear Friends,
After the tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Kansas,
and elsewhere, meteorites were not the only things that people
found falling from the sky. Literally, 100s of miles from where
the tornadoes devastated entire towns, people have found the
personal photographs and documents of people raining from the
sky. One person is attempting to reunite these photographs and
documents with their owners as discussed in the below web
pages.
Mom reuniting tornado survivors with precious artifacts, WSFA 12 News
http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=14723637
Pictures and Documents found after the April 27, 2011 Tornadoes
Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/PicturesandDocumentsfoundafterAprilTornadoes
Portraits From a Storm
http://patty-portraitsfromastorm.blogspot.com/
Patty Bullion, Catastrophic memories
La Lettre, May 28, 2011
http://www.lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/patty-bullion-catastrophic-memories
Memories Lost to a Whirlwind Alight on Facebook to Be Claimed
New York Times, Amy Harmon, April 29, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/us/30reunite.html
Maybe it is not too late for meteorite hunters downwind of
the effected areas to help out in her efforts.
Yours,
Paul H.
Moon Rock
In "Moon Rock"
John wrote:
"Just in
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/05/nasa-moon-rock-woman-arrested-riverside-sell.html "
The article is:
NASA sting leads to woman allegedly trying to sell moon rock for
$1.7 million [Updated]. Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2011
Related articles are:
Purported moon rock that woman tried to sell must be tested for
authenticity, NASA says. Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2011
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/05/nasa-moon-rock-sell.html
NASA catches IE woman trying to sell moon rock for $1.7M
KABC, May 20, 2011
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=8143425
Woman selling moon rock nabbed by NASA by Phil Willon
Nashua Telegraph, May 20, 2011,
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/newsworldnation/920176-227/woman-selling-moon-rock-nabbed-by-nasa.html
Lake Elsinore Police Press Release, May 19, 2011
http://www.riversidesheriff.org/press/lak11-0519-1.asp
Yours,
Paul H.
Mineral found in meteorite named for University of Hawaii scientist
Newfound mineral named for UH scientist by Jim Borg
Honolulu Star-Advertiser, May 17, 2011
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20110517_newfound_mineral_named_for_uh_scientist.html
Kingsborough Community College Professor and Team
of Scientists Publish Paper Announcing Discovery of
New Mineral, Pr Newswire.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kingsborough-community-college-professor-and-team-of-scientists-publish-paper-announcing-discovery-of-new-mineral-121893383.html
New mineral, Krotite, named after UHM researcher
Alexander Krot, School of Ocean and Earth Science and
Technology at the University of Hawaii Newsletter.
http://www.uhm.hawaii.edu/news/attachments/pdf4415_1513.pdf
The paper is:
Ma, C., A. R. Kampf, H. C. Connolly, Jr., J. R. Beckett,
G. R. Rossman, S. A. Sweeney Smith. and D. L. Schrader,
2011, Krotite, CaAl2O4, a new refractory mineral from the
NWA 1934 meteorite. American Mineralogist. vol. 96,
no. 5-6, pp. 709-715; DOI: 10.2138/am.2011.3693
http://ammin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/short/96/5-6/709
Yours,
Paul H.
Triassic Micrometeorites Found
Japanese geologist finds oldest known micrometeorite
11:10, Space & Earth/Earth Sciences
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-japanese-geologist-oldest-micrometeorite.html
Tiny Iron Spheres Are Oldest Fossilized Space Dust by
Dave Mosher, Wired Science, May 12, 2011 |
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/oldest-fossil-micrometeorites/
http://necupybigase.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/tiny-iron-spheres-are-oldest-fossilized-space-dust/
Tiny Iron Spheres Are Oldest Fossilized Space Dust
by jonesaddys, May 14, 2011
http://jonesaddys.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/tiny-iron-spheres-are-oldest-fossilized-space-dust/
Onoue, T., T. Nakamura, T. Haranosono and C. Yasuda, 2011,
Composition and accretion rate of fossil micrometeorites recovered
in Middle Triassic deep-sea deposits, Geology. First published
online May 4, 2011, doi: 10.1130/G31866.1
http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2011/05/04/G31866.1
Yours,
Paul H.
NJ town puzzles over mystery hole in ground
NJ town puzzles over mystery hole in ground
Asbury Park Press - May 13, 2011
http://www.app.com/article/C0/20110513/NJNEWS10/305130020/NJ-town-puzzles-over-mystery-hole-ground?odyssey=nav|head
Picture at:
http://cmsimg.app.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C0&Date=20110513&Category=NJNEWS10&ArtNo=305130020&Ref=AR&MaxW=640&Border=0
Mysterious hole appears in ground in Bernards
by NJ.com Staff, The Star-Ledger, May 13, 2011
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/possible_meteroite_appears_in.html
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/your_comments_mysterious_hole.html
Mysterious Hole In Basking Ridge Yard Puzzles Officials, Experts
Steve Sandberg, CBS New York, May 13, 2011
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/05/13/mysterious-hole-in-basking-ridge-yard-puzzles-officials-experts/
Picture at:
http://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/img_3008.jpg?w=420
Crater's appearance a mystery
Cherry Hill Courier Post, May 14, 2011
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20110514/NEWS01/105140367/Crater-s-appearance-mystery
NJ town puzzled over mystery hole in ground
Newsday, Associated Press, May 13, 2011
http://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/nj-town-puzzled-over-mystery-hole-in-ground-1.2874893
Yours,
Paul H.
End the wasteful tyranny of reviewer experiments
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