[meteorite-list] New Eucrite? - Eastern Slovakia

From: Eric Christensen <christenjames_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:23:40 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <659780.17032.qm_at_web55505.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

Hi Eric,

The photo you reference appears to be Bunburra Rockhole (indeed a eucrite) recovered by Pavel Spurny et. al from the Desert Fireball Network in Australia. It probable that this photo was provided to the media by Dr. Spurny last year, and is now simply a "meteorite file photo" for this particular Czech news organization.

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2009/09/australia-meteormeteorite-news-bunburra.html

Regards,

Eric Christensen

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> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:18:23 -0700
> From: Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] New Eucrite? - Eastern Slovakia
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> Take a look at the photos in the article, does this appear
> to be an
> achondrite/eucrite maybe?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> On the eastern Slovakia fell meteorite, scientists found
> fragments of
> http://www.rozhlas.cz/zpravy/vesmir/_zprava/714433
> Eastern Slovakia fell to an hour before midnight on 28th
> February tens
> of kilograms of rock from space. These were fragments of a
> meteorite
> that burned up in atmosphere, lit up the sky in a radius of
> several
> hundred kilometers and frightening residents.
>
> Some fragments of the meteorite, astronomers have found,
> researched and
> today it is first shown to the public. How Radio?urn?l said
> Marek
> Husa??k of the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy
> of Sciences,
> the largest piece weighs over two kilograms.
> Audio
> Interview with Mark Husa??k from the Astronomical Institute
> of the
> Slovak Academy of Sciences in the afternoon Radio?urn?l
> DOWNLOAD (download)
>
> "It has a dark gray color is relatively heavy compared to
> other stones,
> which are normally found on Earth," described Husa??k rare
> find.
>
> Scientists have found fragments of municipalities of
> Klatovy Vy?n? west
> of Kosice. Whence meteorid arrived, trying to find Slovak
> astronomers,
> together with experts from the Ondrejov Observatory of the
> Academy of
> Sciences.
>
> "Identify heliocentric orbit is not easy, it is necessary
> to determine
> the position of being the largest pieces of which we have
> actually only
> one," said Husa??k.
>
> Impacts of meteorites on Earth are referred to him a
> frequent
> phenomenon, but it is not easy to record. "Specifically,
> the Slovak has
> been observed, there are five falls. Recent findings from
> the 1994
> Rumanov? the village, "he said.
>
> Part of the material universe is now going to analyze the
> composition,
> more debris then end up in museum in the Slovak Republic,
> the Czech
> Republic and Hungary. It then comes under Husa??k important
> video that
> helped to identify the impact site.
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
> Meteorites USA
>


      
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