Carbonaceous Chondrites Cache Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Gator Man on 06-Nov-02. Waypoint GCA55C

Saw this a few weeks ago when I brought a class of schoolchildren to this museum.
Intend to go back and see all the things we didn't get to see.
Cardiff museum S Wales UK

There are a number of Carbonaceous Chondrites at this location and they can be viewed freely during open hours. They are located at Treasures of the Earth, LTD on William Penn Highway in Monroeville , PA. They have four different samples which are composed of various elements (ie: nickel, iron, etc). Thanks for the cache, sorry to see locationless disappearing! Keith and Susan

These different meteorite displays are in the Indiana State Museum in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The first photo shows a meteorite from the Barringer Crater created about 50,000 years ago in Arizona. The other meteorite sample are from the Campo del Cielo fall about 5,000 years ago in Argentina. One of these samples shows the traditional Widmanstatten crystal structure unique to meteorites. TFTC!!

On February 12, 1947 nearly 1,000 tons of iron fell as meteorites in far eastern Russia in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains. A 155 pound bit of this meteorite is now on exhibit at the Eastern Kentucky Science Center http://www.wedoscience.org/home_frm.htm
We viewed this display prior to a laser show in the center's planetarium. TFTC!!

I found this metorite in geologisk-museum in Copenhagen.
The metorites name is Savik I, Knud Rasmussen found then at Greenland (Savegarfik or Savissivik) in 1913, the metorite weight is 3 402 kg.

Savik = knife

Savissivik = The place with iron to make knife off)

Position: 76.01°N, 65.05°E


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Gade - Frederiksberg, Denmark

This is the Barwell Meteorite which fell on Christmas Eve in 1965 in Barwell, Leicestershire. Before it entered the Earth's atmosphere it had been estimated to have weighed over 100kg, making it one of the biggest recorded meteorites to have hit the United Kingdom.
Moments before it hit the ground it exploded into many pieces, leaving multiple craters in the roads and people's gardens, and with help of the villagers they managed to recover the pieces you can see in the photo. All that's left of it are 44kg of charred chunks, which you can see in the photo.

Its is composed of multiple minerals including Olivine, hypersthene and a small amount of metals.

The co-ordinates will take you to the entrance of the Museum where it is housed. Sadly my camera batteries decided to die on me in the cold so I only have internal photos.

FOUND THIS ONE IN THE MUSEUM IN HOUSTON, TX

This is the world’s largest university-based meteorite collection. And not many people know about it. I have gone there off and on for years to look at their exhibits. The coordinates will take you to the doorway to the hall that leads to the exhibit. From Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona, this meteorite, the El Sampal Meteorite is from Mexico.

This is just to alert the cache owner that I am changing my "found it" of 11/26 to a note - although I have not been requested to. While the entire object certainly isn't a meteorite, it's possible that the original meteorite piece was incorporated into the monument. If I can get confirmation of that from a meteorite specialist I have contacted, I will change my log back to a find. And if not, well, I know where there is a "normal" meteorite in a museum I can log - but it's not nearly this interesting

This is in Rossville Cemetery in Indiana. It says the meteorite fell on The Gray Farm in 1892 and this was erected in 1939. Why in a cemetery - I don't know. I think it is interesting that Rossville is not too far from where the Lafayette meteorite was "found" in a professor's office (1931?), with no record of it's "fall" Maybe the events are related.



[This entry was edited by Muirwoody on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 2:35:37 PM.]

Hello.

I found this very interesting Subject in Germany,Rheinland-Pfalz, nearby Gillenfeld in the volcanoarea. It´s a very big lavabomb who found in 1969. This lavaball be chucked out of the Wartgesberg-volcano. I think it´s nearby the same than a Meteorid, the same consistency, the same appearence and so unusual that i want to use it for logge this cache. I hope it impress you so much than me. Sorry for my terrible english.
Greeting from Germany bye Team Uschi

www.diealsdorfer.de

While touring around the Woomera area we found this Carbonaceous Chondrites (Meteorite) in a display at the Woomera tourist info centre. Woomera is in the Northern part of South Australia.
I was in luck as the GPS was receiving sattelites so I was able to record the coordinates posted.
Many thanks Gator Man for the opportunity to log this find.

Found this meteorite on display at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ USA. The iron meteorite was discovered in Central Australia near the Henbury craters.

Found this meteorite sample at the Albuquerque Museum of Natural History.

vancouver British Columbia.
With the locationless deadline coming so soon, glad to log this one !

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Somebody said earlier that there were no Carbonaceous Chondrites in L.A., but I found one at the Natural History Museum right next to USC.

If you go to the NHM then you should plan to spend at least a couple of hours here. Prices for adult tickets cost 9 bucks, children are less (check the website: http://www.nhm.org/information/admission.htm for details). There are so many things to explore in this museum...! I'm going to have to come back some day.

Allende Meterorite (Stony, Carbonaceous Chondrite); Fell on February 8, 1969 at Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.

"Carbonaceous chondrites are stony meteorites that consist mostly of silicate minerals. They contain particles that were among the first solids to form in the early solar system."

Thanks for the cache!

5th FLOOR, WORLD MUSEUM, WILLIAM BROWN STREET, LIVERPOOL, UK

They've a whole cabinet of Meteorites, and you can even touch one and feel its weight!

Great museum, well worth a visit - and its FREE !!!

TFTC - PhilPamandRob

La région de charlevoix a été créé par un gros météorite il y a 350 millions d'année

il y a un musé qui esplique cette formation

merci
Keeper

The area of charlevoix was created by a large meteorite 350 million year ago

it museum there one which esplic this formation

Greatings
Keeper

The largest piece of the meteor that created the Meteor Crater near Winslow AZ. The meterorite is on display at the entrance to the museum where there are other unlogged meteorites from around the world.

This is the Willamette Meteorite, so named because it was found in the Willamette Valley in 1902 near Oregon City in Clackamas Co., Oregon. It is a metallic iron meteorite, weighing over 15.5 tons, the largest meteorite ever found in the United States, and the sixth largest meteorite in the world. Metallic iron meteorites are a relatively rare kind of meteorite. They comprise a class of about 600 (type IIIA) out of a total of 25,000 meteorites so far found on the Earth's surface. Its most striking features are a well-defined nose-cone shape and a deeply pitted rear surface, the pits and grooves having been produced by long-term exposure and weathering of the exposed surface of the meteorite in the wet and humid Northwest region (it is believed the meteorite emigrated from Idaho to Oregon as the ice shelf receded). The large cavities on the exposed flat side of the meteorite shown in the pictures formed not in space but on Earth during this weathering period. This occurred from the interaction of rainwater with iron sulfide deposits in the meteorite, producing weak sulfuric acid. The etching by this acid, an extremely slow process, dissolved the metal and produced the cavities now found on the meteorite. It was purchased in 1906 by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City where it now resides. For more information
http://www.amnh.org/rose/meteorite.html
Thanks for the cache.

My condolences on the soon to be death of your fine locationless. I know of a suitable carbonaceous condrite on display, certainly have a greater feeling of urgency about making the journey to log it.

On display and for sale at OMSI in Portland Oregon

This meteorite is not in a museum, but was in the collection of a friend. I'm afraid I know nothing of it's origins, but it is pretty cool.

Pengy & Tigger

A nice little chondrite fragment. I hope it satifies the criterior as it was actually a specimen which belongs to a friend. I believe it was a fragment of a larger meteor found in the Middle East.

As this meteorite has already been logged and we sadly hadn't properly read the rules we are changing the 'found-it' to a 'Write-Note'

Martin & Lynn

[This entry was edited by Team Maddie UK on Tuesday, September 06, 2005 at 8:49:15 AM.]

Attached is a photograph of a small (43gm) nickel iron meteorite that I found at Al Hadidah crater in the middle of Saudi Arabia's largest desert - the empty quarter. The black glass beads also shown are tektites found at the same location. They are know by the local bedu as "beads of Adz". They are the result of molten rock being thrown into the air after the impact, forming a basic kind of glass and fallinf to earth as round beads.

Found in a museum next to Bünde/Germany

Meteor Crater, Arizona

We stopped by the site enroute to Flagstaff and a tour of the Grand Canyon. Check out the pictures! TFTH.