[meteorite-list] 100 year old meteorite story from Sweden

From: Ingo Herkstroeter <metopaster_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Sep 7 05:32:45 2005
Message-ID: <15703.1126085563_at_www86.gmx.net>

>Hi Folks!
 
> "If this is the stone I'm thinking of, Zenzen,
> who was head of the Sweden Geological Survey
> or Museum, or equivalent official and a prominent
> geologist, wrote extensively on it. The witness
> account is perfectly consistently with "the real
> thing" and the stone is fossilerous limestone."

I think this indicates a new question: Are sedimentary meteorites
possibible?

People mostly don?t think about this problem and so this problem don?t
exist! We all knew, that we have rocks from Mars, but this rocks are "only"
igneous! Why most people don?t accept, that sedimantary rocks could be hard
enough to survive a impact (and this is the main problem) and become
meteorites? I don?t know how many of you ever piced up a hammer and go out
in the field to have a look to terrestrial rocks. I?ve made this since I?m 8
years old and I?ve seen a lot of sed. rocks hard enough to do so. There are
sed. rocks on the Mars that?s sure, so why not a Mars sandstone or
limestone?

And what?s about planetary metamorphic rocks (not shock met.).............?

Just a few wild thoughts

Ingo/Germany

--- Urspr?ngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly_at_bhil.com>
> An: caubeck_at_gmail.com, Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] 100 year old meteorite story from Sweden
> Datum: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 19:17:18 -0500
>
> Hi,
>
> You're probably referring to:
>
> BLECKENSTAD,
> Ostergotland, Sweden, April 11, 1925
>
> "A meteor was observed, leaving a trail
> of smoke. Stones are said to have
> fallen, and fragments of a white, porous
> limestone were picked up, differing from
> the local rocks. The possibly meteoritic
> nature of this material has been the subject
> of considerable discussion, N. Zenzen
> (1942, 1943); A. Hadding (1943); F.C. Cross
> (1947). Pseudometeorite, F.E. Wickman
> & A. Uddenberg-Anderson (1982)."
>
> If this is the stone I'm thinking of, Zenzen,
> who was head of the Sweden Geological Survey
> or Museum, or equivalent official and a prominent
> geologist, wrote extensively on it. The witness
> account is perfectly consistently with "the real
> thing" and the stone is fossilerous limestone.
> All that happened is that he ruined his
> reputation and lost his job. Sad. I posted a
> long investigation report about it and it may
> still be in the archives if they go back far
> enough.
> The explanation is blindingly simple.
> It's a "terrestrial" meteorite., blasted off the
> Earth by impact and returned to the Earth
> 100,000's of years later, instead of wandering
> the System or ending up on Mars or Venus...
> The simulations of interplanetary transport
> by Melosh, Gladman, and others, always
> show a fair percentage of impact "liberated"
> materials returning to their world of origin.
> Nininger found a fossilliferous meteorite
> too, with a thin calcinated fusion crust and
> wrote, briefly, about it, but he, unlike Zenzen,
> knew when to shut up.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> ----------------------------------------------
> chris aubeck wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Last year, on September 21st, I received a reply on this list from
> > G?ran Axelsson which ended, enigmatically:
> >
> > "As a sidenote there were a meteorite found in sweden almost 100 years
> > ago with fossiles in it. Anyone want to debunk that one?
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > /G?ran"
> >
> > I was seriously interested in seeing a copy of the original article,
> > but unfortunately Mr. Axelsson didn't reply. Can anyone tell me
> > anything about it? This is exactly what I collect and study.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Chris
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