Hi Shawn and all, David Weir has a link to the Pasamonte meteorite that you may have missed. A link to his site follows:
http://www.meteoritestudies.com/ I might add that Nininger was of the opinion that Brown's photo was of the actual meteor in flight and published in 1934 a somewhat lengthy account of it. The paper is titled "The Great Meteor of March 24, 1933." It was published in "Popular Astronomy" (Vol. XLII, no. 6, pp. 291-306). All the best, Frank ----- Original Message ---- From: Shawn Alan <photoph...@yahoo.com> To: Michael Blood <mlbl...@cox.net> Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sun, July 25, 2010 8:06:54 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Statement re LOST CITY-first meteorite fall to be photographedin the USA :) YO Michael, When you have the chance if you haven't already read Mike Bandli post about this topic. If not here is a copy n past, and Mike thank you for the post. "This isn't the first time the Pasamonte photo topic has come up on the list. There was a good thread on this in June 2003 in the archives. As pointed out then, C.C. Wylie (Pop. Astronomy, 1950) argued against the Pasamonte photo being an actual photo of the fireball itself, but instead, the luminous train. A quote from Marco Langbroek of Dutch Meteor Society citing some of Wylie's work: "The photograph was taken by a ranch foreman. He was inside the house when alerted by a bright flash outside. He picked up his camera, went outside to a spot with clear view, and took the picture. He actually opened the shutter while still walking... Given the sequence related, it is likely that it pictures the bright persistent train rather than the fireball itself." Michael, either way you look at it Lost City was the first USA meteorite fall to be photographed to show the meteor in flight. The image from 1933 is only the smoke trail due to the meteor in flight. The image doesn't show any evidence of the meteor like how the Lost City photography does. SO that image is more or less an image of the after effects of a meteor in flight, aka smoke trail and luminocity. I am going by evidence and photographs and Marco Langbroek of Dutch Meteor Society cited some of Wylie's work also agrees about how the 1933 image " is likely that it pictures the bright persistent train rather than the fireball itself." All and all, from this, I learned about a new meteorite and some history behind it and got some good research in. SA --- On Sun, 7/25/10, Michael Blood <mlbl...@cox.net> wrote: From: Michael Blood <mlbl...@cox.net> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Statement re LOST CITY-first meteorite fall to be photographedin the USA :) To: "Shawn Alan" <photoph...@yahoo.com>, "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Date: Sunday, July 25, 2010, 7:37 PM Yo, Shawn, See your comment at the bottom, below (taken out of context of your response to Al): The card to which you refer came with the specimen when I Purchased it. Many - in fact most of my customers WANT whatever Cards, labels, photos, newspaper articles (regardless of errors therein) To be included with the specimens I sell them. Hence the photograph on my site. Is this understandable to you? I carefully worded my original post so as to minimize any inkling Of any implication whatsoever that you may have provided a false statement on purpose in your eBay ad. Similar consideration on your part would have been appreciated. Kind regards, Michael On 7/25/10 10:58 AM, "Shawn Alan" <photoph...@yahoo.com> wrote: > AL now you know what I find that is even more odd is that Michael Blood is > selling two Lost City meteorites and if you take a look at one of the > meteorite he has on his website :) > http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/LostCity2_668RBox.jpg the ID card that > he has with the meteorite clearly states that Lost City is the first meteorite > fall to be photographer in USA. I find that Michael's earlier statement quote > un quote....... ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
