Re-2: [meteorite-list] Native iron in DHO 007

From: bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Aug 3 13:10:50 2004
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000003500002613_at_paulinet.de>

> I can understand the Fe in the pigeonite (but this would be really
> tiny), but there is reasonable amount of ~0.5mm fresh Fe/Ni metal
> grains/flecks showing in the matrix, ...

Maybe it has something to do with those shock features (melt veins and dikes)
that we have seen in several of the spectacular Dhofar 007 specimens Ivan K.
offered on EBay - some sort of "metallic puddles" formed during the shock
event. Just a quick thought.

Bernd
Received on Tue 03 Aug 2004 01:10:47 PM PDT