[meteorite-list] Northbranch H5

From: Walter Branch <waltbranch_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:35:10 -0500
Message-ID: <003101c73983$e8a2f080$6a01a8c0_at_DrCollman>

Hi Steve,

>As I have said before "Are there any *ugly* meteorites?

Have you ever seen Gretna?

-Walter Branch
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> In a message dated 1/14/2007 4:29:43 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> bernd.pauli at paulinet.de writes:
>
> I've just received an excellent small part slice of Northbranch from the
> Hupe' Collection. It displays some unbelievable veins of FeNi, one of
> which
>
> crosses the whole specimen. I'm proud to have added this fine
> Northbranch
> to my collection.
> Gary,
>
> I first heard of the Northbranch from the farmer who found it, and who
> swore
> it was a fresh fall, because it was up at the surface of his field one
> year
> and it had not been there the year before. He said a magnet stuck to it,
> so
> I dropped everything and drove up to look at it.
>
> When I got there, it was so weathered and ugly that I really did not
> think
> it was a meteorite. It was not until I returned home with a fragment
> that I
> put on the grinding wheel before I saw some metal flake and realized that
> it
> was indeed a meteorite.
>
> I went back up the next day and bought it, then promptly moved it on to
> Blaine.
>
> I think there used to be a photo in a "Meteorite Kids" section on one of
> the
> sites with my daughter Lauren with the Northbranch in the front yard. I
> am
> not sure the photo is even online any more.
>
> Anyway, it is nice to hear someone say "excellent," "unbelievable,"
> "proud"
> and "fine" all in the same description with Northbranch. I would have to
> say
> that is a first!
>
> As I have said before "Are there any *ugly* meteorites? Does anyone have
> an
> ugly grand child? Well, some are just more beautiful than others."
>
> Enjoy the specimen Gary,
>
> Ex Astra,
> Steve Arnold 001
>
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