Re: [meteorite-list] Kentucky?

2003-09-21 Thread John Gwilliam
If my memory is correct, Meteorite List member, Brad Sampson is located in Lexington, KY. I've never talked to anyone that has met Brad in person, but many of us have had dealings with him. Best, John At 02:34 PM 9/20/03 -0700, Tom aka James Knudson wrote: Hello List, Looks like things might

RE: [meteorite-list] Kentucky?

2003-09-21 Thread David E. Hostetter
Hi, list: Sorry to get into this late, but better late than never! I visited the Middlesboro area for the second time a couple of months ago, and recommend going to see it. Driving into town on the main road from the Interstate, it's clear that the geology is different from the surrounding

Re: [meteorite-list] Kentucky?

2003-09-20 Thread Alexander Seidel
If you search for Lexington, U.S.A., you will find a whole list of places to be able to live in, but if you go for Lexington, Kentucky, you will find that at N 38.0 and W 84.5 degrees, quite close to a famous meteorite fall, which is Bath Furnace (L6, fell on Nov 15, 1902, with 86 kg preserved, on

Re: [meteorite-list] Kentucky? / Bath Furnace

2003-09-20 Thread Alexander Seidel
Actually, the main mass of Bath Furnace is in the Chicago Field Museum, weighing a whopping 82.5 kg. About 1 kg is in London, and the rest is distributed somewhere in other collections with 537 g in Jim Schwade´s one, according to MetBase V6.0. Anyone interested in old documents? Well, here we