Dear Zelimir; I enjoyed reading your post. Just a thought, when is France going to pressure all colletors/collections to give their specimens back?
Dave F. Zelimir Gabelica wrote: >Dear list, > >I wish to thank many of you for having provided new or corrected data for >my compilation of Ensisheim meteorite masses. >Now that the reception of such data had slowed down significantly, I am >ready to send you, on request, my provisional compilation list as updated >by March 6, 2007. >Just feel free to ask for a copy, off list. >Note; this list could be found on the Ensisheim web site in a near future). > >I also made the first evaluations and here are the results with some comments: > >1) So far there are 158 different repositories, 73 of them involving >official institutes, museums…and 85 being in private hands. > >2) While the total mass in each repository is accurate (the weights are >taken as received), it is difficult to evaluate how many pieces are >deposited in each place. When the number of pieces held in a (mostly >private) collection is known, this was indicated (if more than one). > >3) Except in few cases (Paris, London…museums), the precision is within one >gram, meaning that the meteorite was probably never weighed with a higher >accuracy, even if the mass is small. > >4) The presently existing total mass computed so far reaches 69,046.385 >grams, which represents 54.37% of the initial mass that is thought to be >127 kg, meaning that more than 45 % are still missing ! (or at least not on >the present census). > >5) The mass repartition is very inequivalent, thus: >- Museums & institutes: 67,735.126 g (98.1%) >- Private collections: 1,311.259 g (1.9%) >(Note that the 53,831 g held at the Regency Palace in Ensisheim represent >almost 78% of the big total (Institutes + private)). > >6) The largest mass held in a private collection is with Marlin Cilz (416 >g, 6th rank), but this (old) number would require confirmation (see below). >The smallest mass held in a private collection, 0.05 g, was so far reported >by Rhett Bourland (Evansville, IN). >The smallest mass held in an official institute (rank 133) is from Black >Hills Inst Geol. Res. (SD) and weighs 0.946 g > >7) As reported before, my compilation was based on previous repositories or >set of data, basically stemming from MetBase (2003), BM catalog (Grady >2000), Ensisheim archives (Schmützer, 1993), more recently completed by >data provided by R. Kempton, NEMS (2003), Jörn Koblitz (2007 MetBase >edition) and Pierre-Marie Pelé (his own compilation achieved in 2006-2007 >that allowed me to precise many old museum/institute old figures). >Most of the private repositories come from your own data kindly sent on a >regular basis through the list. >Some reports came more recently from the subscribers of P.-M. Pelé’s >“Encyclopedia of Meteorites”, upon specific call. >I warmly thank again all of you for this extremely valuable help! > >8) My compilation is being increased and improved permanently and your >further help is always very much appreciated. > >Here are some data that I’d like to complete and for which I could not >contact the owner(s) directly, for various reasons. If anyone can help, >this will be more than great. >Some specific questions: > >A) I need the accurate masses held in the following museums, for which I >have old data (> 20 years) and/or inaccurate masses (the masses (in grams) >I have, are given in parentheses): > >Berlin (905), Vienna (660), Tübingen (316), US NM (WA) (258), Uppsala (SE) >(210), Tempe (AZ) (209), Cambridge (GB) (133), AMS (NY) (111), Göttingen >(111), Calcutta (77), Basel (77), Copenhagen (74), Strasbourg (FR) (74), >Oxford (GB) (71), Paris Ecole des Mines (38), Freiberg (DE) (28), Harvard >(MA) 21), Moscow Geol. Mus (11), Tallin (ES) (11), TCU Fort Worth (“only” >4.3 g…), St Petersburg (RU) (4)…some museum in Holland (???) > >B) Same question, from the following private collections: > >Cilz (416), Labenne (88), Haag (85), Horejsi (28.2), Heinlein (26.5), Du >Pont coll (8 g…still exists ?) > >C) The repositories are classified by cities (as in MetBase). I need the >following data: > >Is J. Schwade living in Kankakee or in Crystal Lake ? >Is Marc Labenne living in Sarasota (FL) or in Tergnion (France) ? >Which are the cities and US States where live: >- R. C. Cavalieri (USA) ? >- J.-M. Daillier (France) ? >- P. Pibburns (USA) ? > >THANKS SO MUCH ONCE MORE ! > >Best wishes, > >Zelimir > > >Prof. Zelimir Gabelica >Université de Haute Alsace >ENSCMu, Lab. GSEC, >3, Rue A. Werner, >F-68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France >Tel: +33 (0)3 89 33 68 94 >Fax: +33 (0)3 89 33 68 15 > >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list