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Re: New meteorites, Denver's Mineral Show.

Hello All,

Regarding the Labennes' Internet site at:
http://www.labenne-meteorites.com/expe98.htm

I just checked out their website of new Sahara meteorite finds and was
greatly impressed by their new material. It seems there is no end to what
the Labennes can find out there!

To fully appreciate many of the pictures, you may need to open them in a
photo program like JPEGView or PhotoShop. Then you can the whole slice at
once. These things are incredible in their entirety.

Speaking of the Portales meteorite, check out their metal-rich achondrite
called Sahara 98100. It looks almost like Ibitara with metal droplets
scattered throughout the surface of the slice!

Check out the Sahara 98035 as well. Because of its incredible chondrule
density, it looks like an LL3 to me. Note the rimmed (?) chondrule in the
lower tip of this slice.

The Sahara 98175 slice is not only packed with chondrules, but in the lower
right of the slice, there are two similar sized oval chondrules. Normally
nothing to wonder much about except these two are the two largest in the
slice, one is black and the other is white, an they look almost like mirror
images of each other. I've never seen a feature like that before.

On their site, they describe Sahara 98046 as "...the most beautiful we have
found."  To me, it looks like a river of chondrules flowed in from the side
of the slice and surrounded the jagged fragments of rock just before it
solidified! This is defiantly one that needs to be viewed in its entirety
to get the feeling of this slice.

The Sahara 97117 is just your usual hand-sized beautiful oriented
triangular individual. Can you imagine how the Lebennes' felt seeing that
textbook-example of an oriented meteorite just sitting there in the sand!

And the James Bond meteorite, Sahara 98-double-o-seven is no less than a
dual-lithography impact melt. The dividing line runs diagonal right through
the center of the this slice. Almost a Felt (b) revisited.

For those interested in a challenge, spend some time looking at Sahara
98088. The Lebennes' describe this as "Difficult to describe this wonderful
meteorite and very difficult to take a picture of this!!" They are not
kidding. If you pull down this 280k image and view it all at once, you will
see the Labennes' description is exactly right.

Happy viewing,

Martin


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