And Norton is still the world's largest achondrite. A miracle that it stayed together in the 1 ton mass, most of the aubrite is very friable, except the nice sized enstatite crystals thoughout. They just don't make falls like the used to!
Carl Agee ************************************* Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/ On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Frank Cressy via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: > February 17 and 18 are the birthdays of the two largest meteorites to fall in > the US. On February 17, 1930 the Paragould meteorite fell in the > northeastern corner of Arkansas. The 820 pound stone recovered from the fall > was the largest meteorite recovered from a witnessed fall in the US to that > time. > > Eighteen years later, on February 18, 1948, the Norton County aubrite fell > near the Kansas-Nebraska border. The 2360 pound main mass was found on July > 3 and later recovered from a 10 foot deep hole. It remains the largest stone > meteorite seen to fall in the US and the second largest largest fall in the > world after the Jilin, China meteorite that fell on March 8, 1976. > > Cheers, > > Frank > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
