Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: Pojoaquea Pallasite - What happened to it? (Second Attempt)
Mike, Surely, this must be Glorieta Mountain, which has the synonym "Pojoaque". Jeff On 4/28/2012 9:40 AM, Michael Gilmer wrote: Hi List, I tried to post this yesterday, but emails were not going through to the List. I contacted a couple of other List members who confirmed that they were having problems with emails reaching the List also. So if this message (or my ad from yesterday) appears twice, please forgive me, it was not intentional. Usually, any Nininger-related question garners a couple of replies, so I knew something was wrong when nobody replied and this post never appeared. Original post/question - Hi List, On page 9 of Nininger's "Catch a Falling Star", he mentions a pallasite named "Pojoaquea" that was found in an Indian burial mound in New Mexico in 1931. He says that the specimen bore evidence of being carried in a medicine pouch. I searched the internet, Grady's CoM, and the Met Bulletin, and I cannot find any other mention of this meteorite. Does anyone know what happened to this meteorite? And if it is extant, where is it? Best regards, MikeG __ 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
[meteorite-list] Fwd: Pojoaquea Pallasite - What happened to it? (Second Attempt)
Hi List, I tried to post this yesterday, but emails were not going through to the List. I contacted a couple of other List members who confirmed that they were having problems with emails reaching the List also. So if this message (or my ad from yesterday) appears twice, please forgive me, it was not intentional. Usually, any Nininger-related question garners a couple of replies, so I knew something was wrong when nobody replied and this post never appeared. Original post/question - Hi List, On page 9 of Nininger's "Catch a Falling Star", he mentions a pallasite named "Pojoaquea" that was found in an Indian burial mound in New Mexico in 1931. He says that the specimen bore evidence of being carried in a medicine pouch. I searched the internet, Grady's CoM, and the Met Bulletin, and I cannot find any other mention of this meteorite. Does anyone know what happened to this meteorite? And if it is extant, where is it? Best regards, MikeG -- --- Galactic Stone & Ironworks - MikeG Web: http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter: http://twitter.com/GalacticStone RSS: http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 --- __ 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