[meteorite-list] Info needed

From: Jose Campos <josecamposcomet_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 23:44:36 -0000
Message-ID: <001601c717fe$288d2820$1eeb16d5_at_paular2wuci4vh>

Dave,
I appreciate your high degree of precision... and your vast knowledge of my
country of birth...:)

The Macua (or Makua for english speaking people), are the largest etnic
group of Mozambique, 5 million of them, nice, friendly people,
out of a grandtotal population of 19.406.000 (2005). Besides their own
language Macua, they speak Portuguese as well.
The Macua live mainly in 3 of Mozambique's provinces: Cabo Delgado, Nampula
(where I was born), and Zambezia, some 258.800 sq Kms in round numbers.
May a nice meteorite fall in your backyard...
Best wishes,
Jos? Campos
Portugal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Carothers" <david.carothers at verizon.net>
To: "Jose Campos" <josecamposcomet at netcabo.pt>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Info needed


> Coordinates appear to be 14? 55' 20S / 37? 51' 56E
>
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jose Campos" <josecamposcomet at netcabo.pt>
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 7:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Info needed
>
>
> Hi Mateo and List,
>
> It also seems to me, that on the photo shown by Mateo, the" E. Africa"
> stands for East Africa:
>
> I was born in Mozambique in 1945 - what was known as Portuguese East
> Africa - until its independence from Portugal in 1975.
> For the Macua tribe (who live in north of Mozambique, the same region
> where
> I was born), the word MUANA means child, kid,
> and also, there is vaguely, an area known as "terras de muana" (lands of
> muana), - but I do not know its coordinates.
> Could this area in northern Mozambique be related to the meteorite shown
> in
> the photo?
>
> Jos? Campos
> Portugal
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MexicoDoug" <MexicoDoug at aim.com>
> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Info needed
>
>
>> Hi Bernd,
>>
>> A treatment with Babelfish at www.altavista.com tells us that "Poglica"
>> is
>> a
>> word with a complex indoeuropean etymology, including most closely from
>> Slavic. Apparently it most recently means "button", and earlier was
>> derived
>> from roundish things like goiter and roundish ball.
>>
>> Interesting observation on the "E" for East Africa. Apparently "Muana"
>> is
>> also a Congolese surname (Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) and Camaroon were
>> also
>> mentioned).
>>
>> It doesn't look much like an Ivory Coast tektite, but that's what I dug
>> out
>> of the Internet and probably is more than a coincidence for the locality.
>> Might check into the e. African "Galim" locality meteorites from place
>> name
>> "Adamoua", Cameroon.
>>
>> Good luck!
>> Doug
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
>> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 3:14 PM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Info needed
>>
>>
>>> Muana Poglica: http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/6839/muanaan2.jpg
>>>
>>> As for the "Muana Poglica", the label says E(ast) Africa not S(outh)
>>> Africa,
>>> although this doesn't help much. I did a Google search and found the
>>> second
>>> part of the word "Poglica" but the texts are written with Cyrillic
>>> letters.
>>> Maybe Sergey can help here.
>>>
>>>
>>> in another museum I have found this meteorite without any info, the
>>> crust
>>> is
>>> complete and fresh, and the face broken show this matrix green color
>>> with
>>> metal and grey chondrules:
>>> http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6710/1mu1.jpg
>>>
>>> Hello, Holbrook experts out there. Could that be a fresh Holbrook???
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Bernd
>>>
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