[meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:32:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1371148362.87170.YahooMailNeo_at_web122005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

I wish somebody would take the time to actually and truthfully certify the weight on Kalahari 009. Weighing it on a bathroom scale and rounding it off is disrespectful to such a piece!? It may be the world's heaviest but we will never know until somebody does the right thing and weighs it properly.? Even if its weighs in the neighborhood of what is being claimed, but not proven, it may not be the worlds largest due to density.? NWA 5000 is less dense and displaces more area per cubic centimeter therefor may be physically larger.

Until we get an accurate weight, it cannot claim any heavyweight title.? Come on, a rock from the Moon deserves better than this!? It is like having a heavy weight boxer going for a title, failing to weigh in before a bought.

It would be nice if its caretaker(s) were not so secretive and would at least disclose its dimensions if they cannot provide an accurate weight.


Adam







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From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:20 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type


Hi List,

I am putting together a list of the largest known meteorites by type.
Here is what the list looks like so far.? Can anyone spot any errors
or suggest any other large specimens of different types?

Largest Meteorites :

Largest carbonaceous CM1 - Moapa Valley - 691 g
Largest iron - Hoba - 60 MT
Largest chondrite - Jilin - 4 MT
Largest aubrite - Norton County - 1.1 MT
Largest Martian meteorite - Zagami - 18 kg
Largest Lunar meteorite - NWA 5000 / Kalahari 009 - 11.53 kg / 13.5 kg
Largest pallasite - Fukang - 1 MT (3.5 MT?)
Largest angrite - D'Orbigny - 16.5 kg
Largest brachinite - NWA 4882 - 2.89 kg
Largest mesosiderite - Bondoc? - 888.6 kg
Largest CH - Acfer 366 - 1456 g
Largest CR6/Metachondrite - Tafassasset - 30+ kg

Best regards,

MikeG

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Received on Thu 13 Jun 2013 02:32:42 PM PDT