[meteorite-list] Wanted : Micros of the following meteorites

From: Impactika at aol.com <Impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:37:32 EDT
Message-ID: <c79.54d81ec5.3716945c_at_aol.com>

Hello,
 
I truly hate to disagree with you, Sterling. But it happens so rarely.
 
I find 9 meteorites listed for Illinois.
 
First: South-Dixon is now listed as a Pseudo-meteorite.
Then, I do agree with the next 4 you have listed: Bendl, Bloomington,
Havana and Marengo.
 
I also find 3 older ones: Tilden, Toulon, Woodbine. All very rare. Has
anyone ever seen a crumb of Toulon????
 
And then, there are 2 more recent ones:Saint Augustine (Iron IID, found in
1974 in Knox county, 2 masses, 22.2kilos) and of course Park Forest, the
only Illinois meteorite you can obtain quite easily.
 
Information from M. Grady "Catalogue of Meteorites", Fifth Edition, and
"Meteorites from a to Z" Third Edition.
 
Anne M. Black
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In a message dated 4/14/2009 7:10:46 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net writes:
Hi, Mike,

For 20 years, I lived in and owned a business in
Bunker Hill, IL, just 9 miles down the road from
Benld. The Benld stone is the first authenticated
to have struck an automobile (even if it was in the
garage at the time), and it's one of the handful of
Illinois meteorites. Illinois -- all that flat land and
only eight lousy Illinois meteorites. Why is that?

One of them is an iron bead found in a burial
mound (Havana). One of has never been seen
since it was first described; we know only the
year of the fall in a town name that doesn't exist.
The meteorite was real, though (South Dixon).

That leaves six, several of which are very small:
Marengo, a 68 gram stone in the Dupont Collection,
and Bloomington, a 67.3 gram stone divided between
the Field and the planetarium in Rock Island. That
leaves four Illinois meteorites you could theoretically
collect a piece of. The chances are mostly theoretical,
though.

I've been to Benld several times to investigate
the possibility of finding another stone. I've located
the neighborhood where it fell to a two-block accuracy,
but it was built up to flat land in the 1930's with
fill dirt over uneven land that had been the site of
an iron foundry.

Even worse, the fill was unconsolidated, and any
stone falling fast enough to penetrate a Ford would
have buried itself 6 feet or more into the Earth if it
had hit the ground. That soil is full of rusty iron
scrap, so you can leave your metal detector at home!

The area south of the fall site is both rocky and
swampy with multiple streams and creeks. Most
unpromising ground for a meteorite hunt imaginable.
Nevertheless, I walked around for a few days looking
for a 60-year-old H5. (If you don't look...)

The collection data I cited is from the 2000
edition of the NHM (UK) "Catalogue of Meteorites."
Possibly a little out-of-date, if there has been
trading since, but I can't imagine the Field giving
anybody the tiniest piece of Benld.


Sterling K. Webb

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Received on Tue 14 Apr 2009 09:37:32 PM PDT