Météorite # 1083 : Bondoc

Tafassasset ?

Achondrite "exotique"* en général ?

* = à mon sens toutes les PAC et autres non HED / SNC / ALUN...

jmm a écrit:

Tafassasset ?

Désolé ,Non!

Juste pour finaliser pas ACAP ni LOD ni BRACH ?

Collection David Hardy et URE ?

Abidou, je me suis sans doute mal exprimé, J'EXCLUAIS DEJA les HED, martiennes
et lunaires dans ma question...

Je demandais en fait "achondrite, hors celles-là ?" ... bref, une achondrite ?

Mais je ne sais toujours pas s'il s'agit bien d'une achondrite !!!!

Sans chondres et pas achondrites > type 7 ?

IAB ?

Bondoc ?


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PS : si quelqu'un peut m'expliquer ce que représente les chiffres et les lettres ex : B4 ou A1 ...

jmm a écrit:

Bondoc ?

jmm ,c'est bien Bondoc Méso de Philippines.
Avec une belle histoire:

Peter Marmet:

For several years I had a 20.6 g piece of the Bondoc mesosiderite in my collection but rather unnoticed. Recently I read a text by Al Mitterling, related to the Bondoc recovery story in H. H. Niningers great book "Find a falling Star". Immediately, I remembered my Bondoc piece and I read Niningers story. Here's a short abstract of the text:
"This is the incredible story of the recovery of the Bondoc meteorite, one of the largest, finest and most unusual stony meteorites yet discovered only because of coincidental events and the persistance of Dr. H. H. Nininger and Mr. John Lednicky, two ingenious Americans."
Nininger wrote: "We had been in the Philippines ten or twelve days in 1959 when I visited the office of the National Bureau of Mines, sure that among thousands of samples that inevitably reach such an office, there must be an occasional meteorite. 'Well, yes, once in a while such a sample comes in; but who cares about meteorites?' I had the answer.
Might not the Bureau have such specimens on hand? Well, the director thought, there should be one. It had come in not so long ago, a rounded, rusty lump of what appeared to be nickel-iron, very badly weathered. The official assured me the Bureau had no interest in the specimen and that I was free to pursue the matter.
A pair of lawyers had contacted two Japanese geologists who desired an iron mine, but when these two were escorted to inspect the prospect they were disappointed: This was no iron outcrop, but only something that had fallen from the heavens, and they turned away. To reach that remote jungle location they had to spend several hours aboard a slow train, then they waited for a bus that only runs when the weather and the roads are not too bad. It normally takes one day to reach a costal village. From there a small boat carried them to and into the mouth of a river. Then they had tramped for ten hours through crocodile and serpent-infested jungle only to find a lone metallic lump which they judged to be of low-grade quality.
Ten years earlier a visitor from Manila to our museum on Highway 66 had shown keen interest in meteorites. He was John A. Lednicky, a University of Kansas graduate who had lived in Manila most of his life. He said that if and when I needed assistance he would be glad to help. I decided to write to John Lednicky to request the help he had offered. On September 15, 1959, Lednicky wrote, that he must wait until after the national elections because bandits were operating on the peninsula; there had been considerable shooting. But after the election there followed more rains, more typhoons; then an illness kept Lednicky in the hospital for some time. On February 13, 1961 Lednicky wrote that he visited the site and that he thinks it's not a meteorite.
But I was sure it was a meteorite and I wanted it more than ever. On January 9, 1962 Lednicky reported that they had been able to load the meteorite on a wooden sled, but that three carabaos (water buffalos) had been unable to move it. With a larger bulldozer they finally managed to move the meteorite to the mouth of a river. Now a raft was being built on which the meteorite was - with great difficulties - finally towed to Manila.
John Lednicky put three and a half years of effort and frustration into the 'favor' he had offered in late 1958. Without him the Bondoc meteorite never would have been recovered."
Well, now I look at my little Bondoc piece in a very different way and I like to imagine what incredible story it would tell if it was able to speak...

Ca fait un peu "le dernier monde cannibale", cette histoire... on pourrait faire une adaptation "forum" !

(même que se ferait bouffer par les cannibales de la jungle des Philippines après avoir tenté de remplacer leur mésosidérite sacrée par d'infâmes varinites... )

Je lance la suivante.