[meteorite-list] Re: NWA 788

From: Dave Harris <entropydave_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:43 2004
Message-ID: <005701c197b6$075d94a0$849f0050_at_default>

Hi Bernd!
I have just got your emails just as I was looking under my binocular
microscope at my specimens! And I concur, they really are fascinating -
proves to me that there is no such thing as an "ordinary chondrite"!

And what is it that I am seeing? Heavens, I really need an expert here -
right now! What are the black veins crosscutting the stone? melt? sulphides?
what are the small spherical black spheres? Again, sulphides? Oxides? I need
to understand the implications of why some chondrules appear to have large
olivine crystals in a matrix - what indeed is the matrix? and so on and so
on!
Great stuff!
dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Pauli HD" <bernd.pauli_at_lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: "Dave Harris" <entropydave_at_ic24.net>
Cc: "metlist" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 7:50 PM
Subject: NWA 788


> Dave Harris wrote:
>
> > I've just got some cute little NWA 788 from Jim
> > Strope (thanks Jim!) and noted they are brecciated.
>
>
> Hello Dave and List,
>
> To me NWA 788 is one of the most visually appealing brecciated
> meteorites I have ever seen. I also proudly own an 18.9 gram whole
> stone cut in two halves which I acquired from Jim via EBay. It shows
> awesome brecciation and fascinates me even more than my itsy bitsy
> NWA 482 + thin section (also from Jim). In fact, the two halves I
> got from Jim fascinated me so much that I acquired another piece, a
> partially oriented individual with primary and secondary fusion crust
> and outstanding flow lines (from Greg Hupé - also via EBay). I do
> love this little breccia! See JPEGs in my private mail to you.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bernd
>
Received on Mon 07 Jan 2002 03:00:54 PM PST