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 The Stingray 
269 grams.   Iron, IIG

TKW 20.69 kg. Fall not observed. Found 9 May 1984, Twannberg, Canton of Berne, Switzerland.

1 of only 6 meteorites with this classification.


Anne writes:
The first mass was found in a field in May 1984. 2 additional masses were found in 2000 and 2001 by Marc Jost (SpaceJewels.com).

Years of research by several Swiss hunters, who were not discouraged by either the weather or the native "wild" life, led to the discovery of many smaller fragments, which were presented during the 2016 Ensisheim show.

The Natural History Museum of Bern, Switzerland, will present a special exhibit featuring those new finds and those meteorite hunters from August 19, 2016 to August 20, 2017.

 What was in the hole in photo 2? A cow-bell! 


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John lutzon
 7/17/2024 8:06:09 PM		 OMG... The reports of the aforementioned demise is highly exaggerated. Thanks for the Great news, Anne. :((
Anne Black
 7/17/2024 7:56:35 PM		 Sorry John L. but Alain Carion is alive and well. Mostly retired now but he was in Ensisheim. (Don't rush it!)
John lutzon
 7/17/2024 7:36:59 PM		 Everything that John D said, to include Carion, Gheesling, Reynolds, et. al. Condolences to all.
John Divelbiss
 7/17/2024 5:28:41 PM		 I meant to include John C from down under. Any others I missed I apologize.
Anne Black
 7/17/2024 4:03:31 PM		 Thank you Bernd. Marc always promised me that someday that book would be translated into English, and I was hoping you would do it. Obviously he never had time, he disappeared way too soon. But it is not too late, I know you can do it. Thanks.
jimi shorten #6204
 7/17/2024 2:01:29 PM		 I like it. Very cool in deed. ;-)
John Divelbiss
 7/17/2024 1:32:50 PM		 the community losses of older collectors passing continues with Marc J after Ray W, Peter M and Alex S. All were well known and onviously liked by many. My condloences to family and friends of Marc and the others.
Bernd Pauli
 7/17/2024 1:15:27 PM		 Here is a booklet on the Twannberg meteorite I can heartily recommend. It's a must have with countless photos of the Twannberg iron and its finders - among them, of course, Marc Jost: Beda Hofmann, Marc Jost, Andreas Koppelt (2016) Der Twannberg-Eisenmeteorit, Funde 1984-2016, 109 pp.
Paladino Vincenzino
 7/17/2024 3:56:57 AM		 beautiful specimen, thanks to Marc and all the people who participated in the research, thanks to Mr Beda, for his kindness, availability and professionalism. I also have a beautiful Twanberg, bought directly from Marc, still with the number of the museum and of the person who found the specimen (Gino Bernasconi)
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Anne Black
 7/29/2023 1:55:38 PM		 Yes a lot of thanks to go around. Thanks to Marc Jost for spearheading the discovery, Thanks to Andi for finding the cow bell, and for a great picture :-) Thank you to Beda for responding, I hope that the research will continue and that eventually you will find artifacts made of Twannberg iron. And Yes Matthias Bronze Age people did travel, traded between them, and used whatever they found.
Andi Koppelt
 7/29/2023 1:25:11 PM		 Thanks Marc, Beda, Sergey and many more for one of the best experiences in my life.
John Lutzon
 7/29/2023 11:35:02 AM		 A norseman's helmet emblem. Nice specimen.
matthias
 7/29/2023 3:53:10 AM		 Perhaps the most beautiful Twanny I've ever seen. I have a small 30 g piece, but perfectly preserved, found on Mont Sujet (you know, Andi). If the arrowhead, found close to the Lake of Biel, is really made of an iron meteorite fallen in Estonia about 3.5 thausand years ago - hopefully they can find in Estonia an iron tool made of Twannberg. It's well known that in the Bronce Age people traded between places thousands of km distant from each other.
Beda Hofmann
 7/29/2023 2:52:23 AM		 Note that the Twannberg count now is at >2000 and mass >153 kg, see Twannberg entry in MetSoc database. Best Beda
Aliyen Faida'llah
 7/29/2023 2:50:37 AM		 Whoa; I like it 🤩🐃
Anne Black
 7/29/2023 2:45:01 AM		 And now, a small arrowhead made of meteoritic iron has been found very close to where the Twannberg was found, directly across the lake, by archaeologists from the Museum of Bern searching a roughly 3000 years old site. It was analyzed at the Museum, it is a piece of an IAB meteorite. So it is not a piece of the Twannberg meteorite, regretfully, but I hope they will keep on searching. I cannot put links to the articles here, so please ask me.
Graham Macleod
 7/11/2016 7:12:09 PM		 Great meteorite and what dedicated people who kept looking for more of this beauty! Cheers All.
Anne Black
 7/11/2016 6:56:38 PM		 Glad you like it, and Andries, if you want more Twannberg, just tell me, I brought a bunch back. (OOooops! sorry, Paul, you said No Ads!!). ;-))
Graham
 7/11/2016 12:59:34 PM		 Was a great presentation in Ensisheim about the Twannberg meteorites and their recovery.
Andries
 7/11/2016 12:26:53 PM		 Beautiful Twannberg. Got a small individual and a small slice from Marc Jost myself.
Wendy Swartz
 7/11/2016 8:40:15 AM		 Great specimen! Looks like a stingray.
 

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