a portion of the mass, 2
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Plate IV. Cube, etched, of Casas Grandes Iron.
The fine lines in relief are Scheibersite.
(cropped from border, squared)
illustrating Wirt (de Vivier) Tassin (1869-1915 *). “The Casas Grandes Meteorite.”
Proceedings of the United States National Museum 25 (1903) : 69-74, followed by four plates.
Harvard copy, digitized March 10, 2008
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“The excavators were now all summoned to view the curiosity. One anxious spectator, with more inquiry and ambition than the rest, gave this mass from the skies a vigorous blow with his crow-bar, whereupon it gave forth a loud and hollow sound, much resembling a church bell on a funeral occasion, which struck these honest savages with holy and reverential awe.”
ex “Correspondence relative to the discovery of a large meteorite in Mexico.”
Letter from William M. Pierson, United States vice-consul, Paso del Norte, Mexico, to the Department of State, Washington.
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1873 (1874) : 419-422
“A bulk analysis is of little value, unless made on the entire mass...”
Tassin, p 72
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wikipedia on Casas Grandes
tags:
iron; transmutations
Teodoro Alverado; Wirt Tassin, “The Casas Grandes Meteorite” (1903)