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8.36 grams. Howardite
TKW 780 grams. Observed fall 14 July 1845, La Vivionnière (Normandy, France) near Le Teilleul.
Pierre-Marie writes:
As a french meteorite collector, I'm really honored to own in my collection the largest fragment of Le Teilleul available in any private collection.
Photos:
1 & 2: from my fragment
3: a drawing from the complete meteorite after it was foundand
4: the field where the meteorite fell, at La Vivionnière (Normandy, France) near Le Teilleul.
On the 14th of July, 1845, about three o'clock in the afternoon, after a detonation like a thunderclap, a stone was collected at the hamlet of La Vivionniere, near the village of Le Teilleul (Manche department in France), which, according to the two eye witnesses, appeared incandescent at the moment of its fall. The meteorite weighed 780 grams. It is a howardite, the only one in France.
Specimens:
355 grams - Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France)
104 grams - Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (Austria)
48 grams - DuPont Meteorite Collection, Planetary Studies Foundation, Algonquin (USA)
21.99 grams - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington (USA)
17.9 grams - National History Museum, London (England)
15 grams - Hungarian National History Museum, Budapest (Hungary)
13.25 grams - Vatican Collection (Italy)
8.36 grams - Pierre-Marie Pelé (France)
8 grams - Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (USA)
6.7 grams - Rainer Bartoschewitz Collection, Gifhorn (Germany)
3.2 grams - American Museum of Natural History, New York (USA)
1.9 grams - Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin (Germany)
1 gram - Geological Museum, Helsinki (Finland)
and a few other meteorite collections
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Found at the arrow (green or red) on the map below
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Jon Taylor
1/10/2017 8:34:33 PM |
You certainly don't see that every day- nice! |
Jansen Lyons
1/10/2017 8:51:59 AM |
Wow! That's a beautiful meteorite with such a profound history. Congratulations! |
Graham
1/10/2017 5:38:56 AM |
Nice one. |
Adri*n Contreras G*mez,
1/10/2017 2:52:11 AM |
Me alegro mucho por ti, Pierre. Todav*a estoy en deuda contigo por tu recomendaci*n para entrar en IMCA. Siempre agradecido, amigo. Un abrazo! |
Martin Goff
1/10/2017 1:28:49 AM |
Wow! Pierre, puts my tiny fragment to shame. What a great collection piece! |
Pierre-Marie Pel*
1/10/2017 1:07:08 AM |
Thank you for this nice message, yes, it's a little treasure. !! |
MexicoDoug
1/10/2017 12:24:21 AM |
Liberte', egalite', fraternite' le 14 juillet! 56 years and now still going! Congratulations on this very, very French national treasure! Merci -- especially for la fraternite avec nous :-) |
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