[meteorite-list] NWA UNCLASSIFIED QUESTION

From: bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jul 10 15:24:04 2005
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000002100003A7A_at_paulinet.de>

Jim inquired:

> I bought an unclassified nwa meteorite from Dean Bessey.
> He had it listed as R70. ... Was R70 just his numbering
> system? Or was 70 the NWA number? If it was the nwa #,
> any data on it other than it is a rumurutiite?

Hello Jim and List,

NWA 070 is an H6 chondrite that was purchased by Mike
Farmer and Michael Cottingham in August, 2000. It had a
TKW (= total known weight) of 8224 grams.

As Tom has already told you R70 was Dean's private numbering
system. But how would you know that the meteorite you bought
from Dean is an R chondrite?

If it is the R70 from Dean's "Friday Morning Meteorite Sale" last
May, it doesn't look very much like an R chondrite but rather like
an ordinary chondrite (a fact that does not diminish its beauty as
a meteorite - meteorites are beautiful, tell-tale messengers from
the asteroid belt !)

Here is the link once again:

http://www.meteoriteshop.com/sales/r1sale51-100.html


Best regards,

Bernd
Received on Sun 10 Jul 2005 03:24:02 PM PDT