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dc.creatorLintz, David O.
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-12T18:09:51Z
dc.date.available2024-02-12T18:09:51Z
dc.date.issued1994-10-04
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/63060
dc.descriptionEmail from David Lintz to Tim McCoy relaying what information isn't documented and what information is had from the meteorite exhibit.
dc.relationOscar Monnig Papers (MS 124)
dc.rightsPrior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph.
dc.sourceSeries III, Box 06, Fayette Co., Texas correspondence folder
dc.subjectMeteorite
dc.subjectFayette County meteorite
dc.subjectFayette County (Tex.)
dc.subjectMcCoy, Tim (Timothy J.)
dc.titleEmail to Tim McCoy from David Lintz, October 4, 1994
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcriptioncc:Mail for: mccoy Subject: Meteorite text From: David Lintz <David_Lintz@BAYLOR.EDU> at sn-internet 10/4/94 4:57 PM To: imccoy at JSC_SSED Tim, Thanks for the info and copies on the meteorite mystery. The plot thi= ckens. It=20 is good that you sent this material since I cannot find our copy of= =20 Transactions of Tx Acad. for 1900, if we indeed do have it. So thanks= for the=20 article. The correspondence will be added to Charlton=D5s files. =A5Text from Meteorite exhibit: Four meteorites were found in Fayette Co. at the turn of the century.= The=20 first was found in 1988 near Bluff and weighed 280 lbs. Shown here ar= e the=20 second, weighing 17 1/2 lbs., and third weighing 12 lbs., that were f= ound in=20 January 1900 near Swiss Alp in Fayette Co. Later the same year a four= th mass=20 weighing 2 3/4 lbs. was found in the same area. All four meteorites w= ere found=20 in a straight line several miles long. I will send more info and my thoughts as I compose them. David david lintz@strecker.baylor.edu


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  • Records of the Monnig Meteorite Gallery [2825]
    The files are arranged alphabetically, usually according to the location of discovery of the meteorite. The files contain correspondence and research material on the meteorites in the collection.

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