[meteorite-list] The black stone in the wall of the Ka'ba (Part 3 of 3)

BURKE J.G. (1986) Cosmic Debris, Meteorites in History, pp. 221-223: Partsch evidently favored a meteoritic origin of the stone, both because of von Laurin's description of the black exterior of the fragment he viewed, its interior texture, and its purported heaviness, and because Muslims said

Re: [meteorite-list] The black stone in the wall of the Ka'ba (Part 3 of 3)

For the Wabar glass hypothesis - the Wabar craters are too young. http://www.agu.org/journals/ABS/2004/2003JE002136.shtml http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2003M%26PSA..38..155B Best, Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com