2006 Meteorite Festival Canceled Brenham Postcard, Neat

BRENHAM METEORITE POSTCARD w/2006 METEORITE FESTIVAL CANCEL

Here is another neat item for your collection album. You are bidding on one (1) Brenham Meteorite Postcard canceled at the 2006 Kansas Meteorite Festival. This real photo postcard features the famous Brenham Meteorite (Main Mass). Back of postcard reads in part: "BRENHAM METEORITE" "With a weight of 454.54 kilograms or 1000 pounds, this is the largest meteorite found in Brenham strewn field. The meteorite was discovered under 63 inches of dirt by H. O. Stockwell using an old wheel barrow metal detector in 1948. This is a rare type of meteorite known as a Stony-Iron Pallasite. Pallasites are characterized by having different amounts of olivine and iron-nickel..." Back also notes it is limited to 1000 copies. This postcard was franked with the 2006 24¢ United States Butterfly postcard stamp (see info below) and canceled with the Meteorite Festival event cancel. The cancel shows a map of Kansas and notes the place of Haviland with "Haviland Crater." On the top of the map, in a six line notation is "Haviland, Kansas; Haviland Station; 67039; Meteorite Fest and July 8, 2006." In two lines across the bottom is "The Rock Stops Here!" and "Brenham Meteorite."

Back of Postcard with 2006 Meteorite Festival Cancel.

Brenham Meteorite History: During February of 1886, Frank Kimberly and his wife Eliza moved to the plains and recorded a homestead claim in Kiowa County, Kansas. Here Eliza found black heavy rocks which she believed to be meteorites. For years she sent letters describing the unusual stones to colleges and universities in an effort to verify her find, Frank thought she was crazy but continued to help Eliza collect them. Finally of March of 1890, a professor from Washburn College in Topeka traveled to the Kimberly farm. A Harvard trained scientist with special interest in geology he determined that he was looking the meteorites were a rare type of meteorite - a pallasite - that would be a great treasure for scientific study. Pallasites are extremely beautiful meteorites characterized by having varying amounts of iron-nickel, and olivine, about 50/50. However in the Brenham find there are examples of solid irons that can be paired with the iron part of the Brenham meteorite.

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