[meteorite-list] Cutting a large meteorite with ...

From: Lars Pedersen <lbp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Feb 26 16:21:37 2005
Message-ID: <001e01c51c49$298fd6d0$b300a8c0_at_acerteimgf71uk>

Hi All

As far as I remember the biggest slice in the world was cut by Vagn F.
Buchvald from the Agpalilik meteorite in Copenhagen.

I think he used wire too..

:-)
Lars
----- Original Message -----
From: <bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de>
To: <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 9:48 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Cutting a large meteorite with ...


>> I'll bet this photo of this clueless moron cutting
>> a meteorte will really give you shivers, then:
>
>> http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/cluelessmoroncuttingmeteorite.jpg
>
> Hello All,
>
> The 6.1-ton Mundrabilla II found in a chunkyard in Australia by P. Ramdohr
> (MPI
> Heidelberg) was cut using the "wire-cutting technique". Professor Paul
> Ramdohr
> used a four-millimeter-thick steel wire and carborundum powder (silicon
> carbide
> or SiC - silicon carbide is about as hard as diamond) as a lubricant. It
> took 188
> hours to cut the first slice although the maximum width was only about 130
> cm !!!
>
> Another interesting aside:
>
> About 8 or 9 slabs were cut from this mass, four of which (about 250 kg
> each)
> were donated to the Smithsonian Institution, the Academy of Science in
> Moscow,
> the British Museum in London, and the Australian Museum in Adelaide.
>
> When these slabs were handed over, the following representatives were
> present:
>
> a) Professor Paul Ramdohr
> b) Professor Wolfang Gentner
> c) British ambassador Nicholas Henderson
> d) Representative of the Soviet Embassy in Germany (Kaplin)
> e) US ambassador M.J. Hillenbrand
> f) Australian representative John Trotter
>
>
> Best sawing (files),
>
> Bernd
>
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