[meteorite-list] Re: Ad-Announcing a New German Iron Meteorite!

From: Arizona Skies Meteorites <johnbirdsell_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Mar 22 17:28:08 2005
Message-ID: <20050322222806.87657.qmail_at_web51507.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Norbert and thanks for your information about your
wrongs! Yes, we may just have to go ahead and cut a
sample off of it to make sure that it is what we think
it is. We'll keep you posted!

Cheers


-John & Dawn


--- Norbert Classen <trifid_at_timewarp.de> wrote:
> Hi John & Dawn,
>
> Unfortunately, Matt might be right with his
> bombshell comment. Being from
> Germany, I and my partners received several iron
> wrongs that revealed a
> peculiar (often martensitic) etch pattern. I always
> felt I finally had the
> real thing, but then, after an analysis in the lab,
> all (so far) five
> samples turned out to be terrestrial, with a
> Ni-content of below 0,3%. Alpha
> iron (usually with a martensitic structure) often
> reveals an etch pattern,
> and that doesn't seem to mean too much. Hover, I
> hope that you really have
> the real thing here - so don't get me wrong. I just
> want to share my own
> experience with "German irons". My best wrong is a
> mass of several tons (!),
> looking very much like Mundrabilla II. Man, that
> would have been the find of
> my life, but in the end, and after three independent
> test in three different
> labs I had to accept that it turned out to be
> another (big) bummer...
>
> A nickel test would be the right thing to do, and
> you won't need that much
> to have it performed in a qualified lab. Hope it
> will test positive!
>
> All the best,
> Norbert
> IMCA #7606
>
> -----UrsprŸngliche Nachricht-----
>
>
> Hello everyone! We are extremely pleased to announce
> a
> New German Iron meteorite! This is only the 12th
> iron
> meteorite to ever be found in Germany and it is a
> spectacular, sculpted specimen. We are leaving it in
> an 'as found' condition for now with the exception
> of
> windowing a small area and etching it. Surprisingly,
> it has a brilliant micro-etch pattern somewhat
> reminescent to our New NWA 2428! We are accepting
> offers and you can check out this unique German iron
> on our website.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> -John & Dawn
> Arizona Skies Meteorites
> http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com
>
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