[meteorite-list] Introducing a meteorite....welcome home Wichita!
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:50 2004 Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV46mRf6Ci6nx00017a7b_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C40A60.EE91FEA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello list, I am happy officially announce that the Kansas Meteorite Society has acqu= ired the complete mass of the Wichita, Ks meteorite. Our hometown. While = it would have been nice for this to have been a first find for our group,= we are just as happy to have returned it home by parting with funds. A p= ress release is going out to the local media this week and we hope it wil= l help promote interest. A series of local talks are being planned to all= ow the local public a chance to view the stone. =20 "This meteorite was found August 17, 1971 by a local farmer while tilling= a wheat field just east of Wichita, KS.....my hometown. A single mass of= 2.3 kg. was recovered and later sold to a US meteorite collector who had= it classified by Dr. Kenato at the University of Tokyo as a stone chondr= ite H, S3, W3. Not a rare meteorite type but certainly one fine looking c= osmic stone. The meteorite is covered with small pits, ~3/4", and has a n= ice trace of black crust in specks all around it. The meteorite has recen= t been came back Wichita, Ks. and is the property of a private collector = in the Kansas Meteorite Society. Welcome Home Wichita! (Name is proposed = but should be voted on very soon)." A further search of the area in late = 2003 and early 2004 by me, Mark Bostick, and fellow Kansas Meteorite Soci= ety members recovered no further specimens. In the 1970's there were few = buildings or anything in that region. Now it is completely built over." The name should be voted on very soon. However, I thought some of you mig= ht find photographs I took of the meteorite yesterday interesting. It is = a beautiful stone. www.meteoritearticles.com/colwichita.html This week I will also introduce another not-so new meteorite, one from Co= lorado. =20 Mark Bostick www.meteoritearticles.com Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor= and meteorite articles. ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C40A60.EE91FEA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV><B><FONT size=3D= 2> <P>Hello list,</P> <P>I am happy officially announce that the Kansas M= eteorite Society has acquired the complete mass of the Wichita, Ks meteor= ite. Our hometown. While it would have been nice for this to have been a = first find for our group, we are just as happy to have returned it home b= y parting with funds. A press release is going out to the local media thi= s week and we hope it will help promote interest. A series of local talks= are being planned to allow the local public a chance to view the stone. = </P> <P>"This meteorite was found August 17, 1971 by a local farmer while= tilling a wheat field just east of Wichita, KS.....my hometown. A single= mass of 2.3 kg. was recovered and later sold to a US meteorite collector= who had it classified by Dr. Kenato at the University of Tokyo as a ston= e chondrite H, S3, W3. Not a rare meteorite type but certainly one fine l= ooking cosmic stone. The meteorite is covered with small pits, ~3/4", and= has a nice trace of black crust in specks all around it. The meteorite h= as recent been came back Wichita, Ks. and is the property of a private co= llector in the Kansas Meteorite Society. Welcome Home Wichita! (Name is p= roposed but should be voted on very soon)." A further search of the area = in late 2003 and early 2004 by me, Mark Bostick, and fellow Kansas Meteor= ite Society members recovered no further specimens. In the 1970's there w= ere few buildings or anything in that region. Now it is completely built = over."</P> <P>The name should be voted on very soon. However, I thought s= ome of you might find photographs I took of the meteorite yesterday inter= esting. It is a beautiful stone.</P> <P><A href=3D"http://www.meteoritear= ticles.com/colwichita.html">www.meteoritearticles.com/colwichita.html</A>= </P> <P>This week I will also introduce another not-so new meteorite, one= from Colorado. </P> <P>Mark Bostick</P> <P>www.meteoritearticles.com</P>= </B></FONT><BR><BR>Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-lin= e archive of meteor and meteorite articles.</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_0008_01C40A60.EE91FEA0-- Received on Mon 15 Mar 2004 08:41:30 AM PST |
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