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Davio,

I found a D'Orbigny for you and its on sale also.

http://www.kdmeteorites.com/D%27OrbignyMeteorite63.7gm.html

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Hi Helder,
Thanks for the lead. I just put a 50% hold payment on it (just kidding).

Davio R.

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nice list.I'd guess Allan Hills is the missing one? Those Antarctic ones rarely make an appearance

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nice list.I'd guess Allan Hills is the missing one? Those Antarctic ones rarely make an appearance

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Actually I have managed to obtain three specimens of Allan Hills over the years - the largest is half of a gram.

My missing specimen is Pasamonte - I once thought that I purchased a specimen but it turned out to be Pasamonte (b) which is not even listed in the MET-BULL.

The specimens that I have manged to find of Pasamonte have been way out of reach - that is one very expensive meteorite...

Best Regards,

- RF

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Russ,
I also have a pasamonte(b). Tell me if you can make sense of what you are about to read. I bought my specimen from the Kansas Meteorite Society. Here is my provenance record info, below:

Pasamonte (b) Provenance

I found some new info today on the Pasamonte that I have. I bought this Pasamonte from M___ B____k, of Wichita, Marks COA has it as Pasamonte (b) L6 Chondrite; Union Co.,NM; found in 2001: TKW 185g. You may not want it. It's classification was done at ASU but has not been published in the Meteoritical Bulliten. If you don't want it no problem.

Here's what I found Pasamonte (b):

I noticed the other day that Pasamonte (b) has not been published in the
Meteoritical Bulliten. I have not researched the reason or even know if the
meteorite was ever submitted, however I thought I would put Gary Huss'
classification report of this meteorite on-line so it is referenceable.
Huss makes the best classification reports. This one is kind of neat, since
Nininger tracked down Pasamonte, and Gary Huss is Nininger's grandson.

Anyway, the report can be viewed here...

http://www.meteoritearticles.com/pasamontebreport.html (obsolete)

As a little side note. My grandfather was born in Conway Springs (Kansas).
Maybe 40 miles from here?....and the birthplace of Nininger. Maybe they
went to school together. My grandfather died in 1987, a few years before
Nininger and is close enough in age that I should look more into this, at
least compare their birth dates...

Clear Skies,
M__k Bo_____k
Wichita, Kansas

Also I found:
Pasamonte (b) was recovered from Union County, New Mexico during August of 2001. One stone chondrite meteorite, 185 grams, was found by Michael Cottingham (e-bay dealer report) who wrote the following on this find; "My wife W__n and I spent a lot of time this summer hunting The Pasamonte Strewnfield looking for more of the Pasamonte (Eucrite). This Eucrite is way too fragile to have survived on the ground since its fall....but I needed to get this search out of my mind once and for all. We hiked and searched the Pasamonte Strewnfield for several hundred hours and probably walked over 100 miles....searching...searching. While we didn't find any of the Eucrites....we did find this one little stone tucked away in an eroded area. Gary Huss at ASU did the work on this stone and it is an L6. I think it is very pretty and with a low known weight very desirable. The closest landmark was the Pasamonte Ranch..... hence the name Pasamonte (b). N 36 degree 14. 562 by W 103 degree 45.515..... this is w the stone was found." Arizona State University got ~24 grams for the classification work. Description by Mark Bostick.

Let me know what you think,
Best regards,
B___

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