[meteorite-list] Gebel Kamil iron is official now - 1.6 metric tons!?!?

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:19:45 -0400
Message-ID: <20100713151945.9VL2H.5891.imail_at_fed1rmwml44>

Jason,
You may be right that there should be more iron to be found But, what if much of it has already been removed by an ancient culture.
Attached here is an example of a "Scarface figure" from the Oxus Culture that has meteoric iron and is of a somewhat dubious origin? The so-called scales on this figure even vaguely resemble the unusual surface texture of this unusual meteorite. see attached;

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673225274&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673225274&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723696500803&baseIndex=47&bmLocale=en

Carl

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---- Jason Utas <meteoritekid at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Mike, Greg, All,
> Just 1.6 tonnes?  It's a 40 meter crater.  Use some logic/physics.
> Carancas made a 40 *foot* crater.  The low estimates of its mass were
> in the 2-3 tonne range.  This crater is three times the diameter...
> The amount that's there is going to be a lot more than 1,600 kg.  I'd
> guess at least 10 tonnes or so, probably more.
> Note how every fragment yet recovered was found on the surface of the
> desert - every single piece has a nice side that is desert varnished
> -- and they say they picked up only half of what was there...
> Just wait 'till someone goes with a metal detector....
> Regards,
> Jason
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks
> <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > The new Egyptian iron is now official and in the Met Bulletin
> > database. ?Notice the TKW! ?1.6 metric tons! ?That is a lot of
> > fragments.
> >
> > Also notice the classification type - iron ungrouped. ?Not "ataxite".
> > Although the write-up does say the meteorite shows an "ataxitic
> > structure".
> >
> > http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php?code=52031
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > MikeG
> >
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