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Leicestershire: Boom County....

Postby David Entwistle » Mon Dec 01, 2014 1:12 pm

The Leicester Mercury report on loud bangs reported across the county of Leicestershire. It's a good excuse for a picture of the Barwell Meteorite....

Is that the National Space Centre fragment?
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Re: Leicestershire: Boom County....

Postby msg-meteorites » Mon Dec 01, 2014 7:13 pm

Yes, that looks like the national space centre chunk. I wasn't aware until recently that it was so sizeable. Over 4kg apparently! :-)
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Re: Leicestershire: Boom County....

Postby David Entwistle » Mon Dec 01, 2014 8:34 pm

msg-meteorites wrote:Yes, that looks like the national space centre chunk. I wasn't aware until recently that it was so sizeable.


Thanks. I recognize it now from Graham's report, from 2012....

msg-meteorites wrote:Over 4kg apparently! :-)


Over 4 kg? That'll probably be the 1966,56 [4702 g] specimen then?

Do we think the largest fragment [7739 g] is held by NHM? I guess it must be.
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