[meteorite-list] Ad - NEA001(Provisional) Details and Auction

From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Dec 26 18:04:42 2004
Message-ID: <003a01c4eb9d$7b10ade0$6401a8c0_at_c1720188a>

Dear List Members,

Several questions keep pouring in regarding the Non-NWA lunar that was
submitted to the NomCom as NEA001 after a high placed recommendation was
given to start a new series. The need for this new series has been
recognized for some time.

NEA001 (Provisional) was submitted to the NomCom as a "Lunar meteorite
(Anorthositic Regolith Breccia)." A gray stone weighing 262 grams was found
by a prospector in northern Sudan near the Libya/Egypt/Sudan boundary in
April of 2002. A type specimen weighing 20g was submitted to PCU. In
addition, 59.66g is with the Royal Ontario Museum. A secondary type specimen
was to deposited to the University of Washington and most of the rest is
with four collectors including ourselves.

Several laboratories are now engaged in the study of this rare highlands
regolith breccia with about 5% mare component. As always, the name and
classification are provisional until voted on by the committee (making it
accepted, but still provisional), and then finally it would become official
next July in Met Bull 89.

Six of the nine samples placed on ebay are still available, the rest have
been sold. I will include the classification data that was submitted to the
NomCom but do not want to publicly release this data as the scientists who
worked on it should be given this pleasure. To see the six remaining
specimens, click on the link below and check out NEA001:
http://members.ebay.com/ws2/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=raremeteorites

Also of interest is a CV3 with a CO3? chondrule field at this link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6500759588

And, finally a large fragment of Governador Valadares Martian Meteorite:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6500753590

Thank you for looking and if you are bidding, good luck,

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Adam Hupe
The Hupe Collection
Team LunarRock
IMCA 2185
raremeteorites_at_comcast.net
Received on Sun 26 Dec 2004 05:51:47 PM PST