[meteorite-list] Fwd: Pojoaquea Pallasite - What happened to it? (Second Attempt)

From: Jeff Grossman <jngrossman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:06:36 -0400
Message-ID: <4F9D58FC.9030000_at_gmail.com>

Mike,

Surely, this must be Glorieta Mountain, which has the synonym "Pojoaque".

Jeff


On 4/28/2012 9:40 AM, Michael Gilmer wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I tried to post this yesterday, but emails were not going through to
> the List. I contacted a couple of other List members who confirmed
> that they were having problems with emails reaching the List also. So
> if this message (or my ad from yesterday) appears twice, please
> forgive me, it was not intentional.
>
> Usually, any Nininger-related question garners a couple of replies, so
> I knew something was wrong when nobody replied and this post never
> appeared.
>
> Original post/question -
>
> Hi List,
>
> On page 9 of Nininger's "Catch a Falling Star", he mentions a
> pallasite named "Pojoaquea" that was found in an Indian burial mound
> in New Mexico in 1931. He says that the specimen bore evidence of
> being carried in a medicine pouch. I searched the internet, Grady's
> CoM, and the Met Bulletin, and I cannot find any other mention of this
> meteorite.
>
> Does anyone know what happened to this meteorite? And if it is
> extant, where is it?
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
Received on Sun 29 Apr 2012 11:06:36 AM PDT