[meteorite-list] Meteorites Expeditions

From: rochette <rochette_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:43 2004
Message-ID: <v04003a11ba892eb7d1f7_at_[193.49.98.39]>

>Hello, thats a good way of thinking. I want the meteorite cane just for L or
>H meteorites stick to the big magnet. But I also will look with the eye for
>other types of meteorites. Unfortunately I dont have any individual
>Achondrite, Lunar, martian, etc...I just have slices of them, so I dont know
>how they look like in situ, but I have photos. What kind of damage can a
>magnet do to a meteorite?...I thought that it might break it, but what I
>plan is not stick the meteorite directly to the ground, but above it. I also
>have smaller magnets for checking the sample in my hands, thus not harming
>the meteorite. Is that what you are telling me?
>
Well the arm is not mechanical just that the magnetic memory
(representative of magnetic fields recorded on the parent body) is erased.
So for the usual collector is does nothing, but for scientists studying
this magnetic record, the stone becomes useless.

PS: to be positive some rarities stick to the magnet also: E, Acapulcoites,
Winowaites, Ureilite, majority of carbons, some aubrites...


Pierre
Received on Mon 03 Mar 2003 11:15:38 AM PST