[meteorite-list] Meteorite collection of East London Museum in South Africa stolen

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:52:14 -0500
Message-ID: <245340.25365.bm_at_smtp111.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Fred,

It would be a Gibeon from Namibia. Keetmanshoop
is one of the farms where it's been found.
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1967SA
OSR.238.....C&db_key=AST&page_ind=0&data_type=GIF&type=SCREEN_VIEW&classic=Y
ES

Keetmanshoop is a 168 kg iron, was on display
in the local high school. Dimensions, fall
date, discovery date, and discoverer are
unknown. The Smithsonian got 622 gm. of it.
Went to the East London Museum.

It is the largest of the meteorites stolen
from the East London Museum in South Africa
on March 26-27, 2014.
http://www.dispatch.co.za/news/organised-thieves-steal-museums-space-rocks/

It's a hot rock...


Sterling Webb
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Does anyone know anything about a "Keetmanshoop iron"? It is not listed in
the Met Bull. Does it have another name?

Regards, Fred Hall





> Dear Listees and Karmaka
>
> Thanks for this rather depressing news. I am fearful for the security
> and safety of collections in South African museums. This is not a
> story I haven't heard before involving other museums. I hope the
> perpetrators are caught, but I fear they will not. This can only
> serve to encourage other to do the same - unfortunately this also
> means curators and other museum workers.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter Davidson
> Senior Curator of Minerals
>
> National Museums Collection Centre
> 242 West Granton Road
> Edinburgh
> EH5 1JA
> 00 44 131 247 4283
> p.davidson at nms.ac.uk
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
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> karmaka
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite collection of East London Museum
> in South Africa stolen
>
> Meteorite collection of East London Museum in South Africa stolen
>
> http://www.dispatch.co.za/news/organised-thieves-steal-museums-space-r
> ocks/
> http://www.ecr.co.za/post/valuable-east-london-museum-items-stolen/
>
> Members of the public who may have any information about seven
> meteorites stolen from the natural history gallery are asked to
> contact Kevin Cole of the museum. Email kcole at elmuseum.za.org Tel. 043
> 7430686 http://www.elmuseum.za.org/
>
> stolen specimens:
>
> https://scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t31.0-8/q84/s720x720/
> 1900271_674725839260741_370768172_o.jpg
> https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1396041_
> 674725869260738_730285397_n.jpg
>
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