[meteorite-list] COOL METEORITE PHOTOS

From: Martin Horejsi <martinh_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:26 2004
Message-ID: <B8AE5895.2173%martinh_at_isu.edu>

Hi Dean and Rhett,

My guess...just a regular old (but fresh) L6.

Interesting inclusions, but many L6's have cool little things going on
inside them besides the L an the 6 stuff.

Cheers,

Martin




On 3/8/02 11:23 AM, "Rhett Bourland" <rbourlan_at_evansville.net> wrote:

> I'm going totally out on a limb here and could quite easily be wrong.
> Anyone at all please feel more than free to point out any errors I may make.
> From what I could see in the pictures the crust doesn't really look very
> glossy which would be indicative of either a howardite or Eucrite. If I'm
> wrong here please correct me Dean. If it were glossy it would because of
> the high calcium content so common with those types. For those same reasons
> I would knock the possibility of Shergottite out as well as they are also
> calcium rich achondrites. Looking through my collection I don't see any
> other meteorites that seem to have the grayish color that these have. So
> now that I've done my little reasoning to determine what they're not, I'll
> move on to what they could be.
> I have heard of troilite (a sulfur oxide which is about the same color as
> the ones you pointed out) inclusions in ordinary chondrites (though I don't
> remember for the life of me which ones or even what types). The nice black
> crust also resembles some that I've seen on very fresh ordinary chondrites.
> Dean, are there any metal flecks dispersed throughout the matrix of the
> rock? I couldn't really tell from the pictures.
> My best guess from what I've seen? An extremely fresh ordinary chondrite
> with troilite inclusions in them. A very cool piece undoubtedly but
> probably not a lunar or Eucrite. Like I said though, I could very easily be
> wrong here especially considering the quality of the photos.
> Best wishes,
> Rhett Bourland, who's happy to take guesses at what kind of a meteorite it
> is instead of having to tell someone that their rock is really a piece of
> burned wood.
> www.asteroidmodels.com
> www.asteroidmodels.com/personal
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>
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>
> I got a shipment of meteorites yesterday and included were these two. I
> thought that some of you might like to see some photos which includes some
> unusual gold coloured inclusions that look odd to me. I bought these two
> meteorites based on a photo but they were a lot nicer than I realized. My
> own photos dont do them justice. They are super cool.
> I think that these two meteorites are paired with a recently classified very
> unusual new type of Eucrite that we at first thought (Or at least hoped) was
> a new lunar as I think that I have seen this meteorite before but I have to
> compare them more and find out a little more information before I would say
> that definitively.
> Still, these two meteorites are just stunning no matter what they are.
> I hope somebody enjoys my photos anyway. I doubt that I will get these
> officially classified (Not that there is any lab time available to get
> classifications for desert meteorites nowadays anyway) but these are so nice
> whole that I dont feel like cutting them anyway. These are not cheap but I
> am taking offers on one or both. The two combined weighs 246 Grams
> See here:
> http://www.meteoriteshop.com/MAR-NWA.htm
> Cheers
> DEAN
>
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