[meteorite-list] Tagish Lake and Kaidun

From: Eric Twelker <twelker_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:05 2004
Message-ID: <B891DAF5.95E1%twelker_at_alaska.net>

Hello all

    Just a reminder that we still have small pieces (<70 mg) of Tagish Lake
available. =20

    Regards,

    Eric Twelker
    twelker_at_alaska.net
    http://www.meteoritemarket.com

> From: Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli_at_lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:25:02 +0100
> To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Tagish Lake and Kaidun
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> ZOLENSKY M. et al. (2001) Kaidun: A smorgasbord
> of new asteroid samples (MAPS 36-9, 2001, A233):
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> One of the most intriguing results of research on Tagish Lake is that
> it may be a piece from a type D asteroid =96 this type of asteroid is
> supposed to be extremely rich in carbon. How does that finding relate
> to Kaidun? Kaidun is a clastic carbonaceous chondrite and the following
> components are present:
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> - every type of carbonaceous chondrite
> - enstatite chondrites
> - shock melt clasts
> - many numerous hitherto unseen materials - plus: ...
> - a carbonaceous lithology with the same oxygen isotope
> composition as Tagish Lake
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> So there was Tagish Lake-like material in our collections
> 20 years before Tagish Lake fell!
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> In order to have accumulated clasts of many unrelated asteroids, the
> Kaidun parent body must have been large and the authors speculate
> that Kaidun may have come from ... Ceres.
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> Cheers,
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> Bernd
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