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Dear Dave,
Please notice, that Ensisheim
is not the "oldest witnessed and recorded fall with material still existant" as
you state on you eBay sales page.
It has been replaced by Nogata
which fell in 861 A.D. (see information from MetBase below). However,
this does not reduce the value of Ensisheim as material of Nogata isn't
available on the market.
Joern
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Joern Koblitz MetBase Editor The MetBase Library of Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences Benquestrasse 27 D-28209 Bremen, Germany phone: +49 421 24 100 24 fax: +49 421 24 100 99 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________________________________ NOGATA, JAPAN, L6
CHONDRITE
After detonations and a brilliant flash at
night, a stone fell which was recovered from a hole in the ground the following
morning. The stone of 472g in weight has been kept in a Shinto shrine since its
fall. Petrography, mineralogy, and chemical composition, M.Shima et al.,
Meteoritics, 1980, 15, p.365 (abs.). Description, analysis, olivine Fa25.1,
19.45% total Fe, M.Shima et al., Meteoritics, 1983, 18, p.87. The date of fall
is May 19, 861, the oldest known meteorite of which material is preserved,
M.Shima and S.Murayama, Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, 1992, Ser. E, Vol. 15,
p.27.
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