[meteorite-list] Black stone of Paphos

From: chris aubeck <caubeck_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Oct 1 17:58:08 2005
Message-ID: <3a5693b30510011453y217766fdx6824ec234b4d006b_at_mail.gmail.com>

That's a useful quote, I can use this!

How would you say they probably identified the stone as the meteorite
they saw fall, considering the problems such identifications usually
cause?

It makes me wonder whether baetyls which were not meteorites were
actually "meteowrongs," discovered after a genuine sighting.

Thanks again,

Chris

On 01 Oct 2005 21:28:45 UT, bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de
<bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de> wrote:
> Hello, Chris, Sterling, Martin A., and List,
>
> In Burke's "Cosmic Debris" you also find a few lines about the Paphos
> meteorite: "There were three temples of Aphrodite (Venus) in Asia Minor
> that were connected to a meteorite: the first was at Aphaca, a sacred
> place not far from Byblos, where the second was located, and the third
> was at Paphos on the nearby island of Cyprus. Aphaca was sacred because
> Aphrodite Urania fell at the place as 'fire from a star'. Aphrodite, both
> at Byblos and Paphos, was represented by an omphalos - that is, by an
> elongated cone within a temple of two columns (fig. 35b)".
>
> BURKE J.G. (1986) Cosmic Debris, Meteorites in History, p. 221.
>
>
> Good night,
>
> Bernd
>
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