Английская Википедия:Brenham (meteorite)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox meteorite Brenham[1] is a pallasite meteorite found near Haviland, a small town in Kiowa County, Kansas, United States. Pallasites are a type of stony–iron meteorite that when cut and polished show yellowish olivine (peridot) crystals.
The Brenham meteorite is associated with the Haviland Crater.
History
In 1949, a collector named H.O. Stockwell discovered a mass of Шаблон:Convert,[2] known at the time as "The World's Largest Pallasite Meteorite."
In October 2005, geologist Philip Mani and meteorite hunter Steve Arnold locatedШаблон:Where and recovered the largest fragment ever found of Brenham: a single pallasite mass of Шаблон:Convert.[3]
Classification and composition
Brenham is an anomalous pallasite (Pallasite-an).[1]
Specimens
The Шаблон:Convert mass found by Mani and Arnold is currently housed in a private collection in Texas.
The Шаблон:Convert mass discovered in 1949 is called The Space Wanderer and is on display at The Big Well in Greensburg, Kansas. It was found, and excavated using hand tools, on the Ellis Peck farm, east of Greensburg, Kansas.
A large collection of Brenham meteorites, along with numerous fragments weighing a total of 8,500 pounds, were once housed at the now-closed Kansas Meteorite Museum and Nature Center in Haviland, Kansas.[4][5]
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Fragment housed in the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
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Specimen almost olivine-less
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Small slice at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
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Meteorite at Big Well museum in Greensburg, Kansas
See also
References
External links
- Шаблон:Commons category-inline
- The largest recovered Brenham oriented fragment on World Record Meteorite Website
Шаблон:Meteorites Шаблон:Meteorites by name
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Metbull
- ↑ Catalogue of Meteorites Reference Book with CD-ROM October, 2000.
- ↑ Geotimes: Mammoth meteorite unearthed, January, 2006.
- ↑ Kansas Meteorite Museum and Nature Center
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
