[meteorite-list] From McCarthy Taylor: What is this rock?

From: Dawn & Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Sep 8 20:19:32 2005
Message-ID: <144501c5b4d3$ef8c0fc0$6502a8c0_at_GerryLaptop>

Wicked neat rock, whatever it is.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: <Impactika_at_aol.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 9:48 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] From McCarthy Taylor: What is this rock?


> McCarthy is having troubles posting to the List so he has asked me to
> forward this.
> He really would like some opinions on this "rock"
> Thanks.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
>
> This post is not an offical "Field Trip Report" but a request to help
> identify a suspect rock found from my latest trip.
>
> The trip recovered 4 stones, 2 of which are meteorites, 1 which I
> thought was till I cut it open and its the topic of this posting, and a
> fourth that is probably a mesosider-wrong, but tested positive for
> nickel and will be sent to a lab soon.
>
> The stone in question is found in the Plainview strewnfield, attracts
> a magnet well, and has metal flakes. Hence, I acquired it from the
> finder. Once I cut it open I found no chrondrules and white matrix.
> Also, I found tiny bubbles here and there.
>
> Does anyone recognize it or seen anything like it? Any ideas what it
> is? Meteorwrong?
>
> _www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003.jpg_
> (http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003.jpg)
>
> A good view of the metal pattern:
> _http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003-2.jpg_
> (http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003-2.jpg)
>
>
> A veiw of matrix and the small bubbles:
> _http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003-3.jpg_
> (http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003-3.jpg)
>
> The original main mass:
> _http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003-5.jpg_
> (http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003-5.jpg)
>
> --
> McCartneyTaylor, IMCA 2760
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

----
> --
>
>
> Anne M.  Black
> www.IMPACTIKA.com
> IMPACTIKA_at_aol.com
> President, I.M.C.A.  Inc.
> www.IMCA.cc
>
> ______________________________________________
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>

Received on Thu 08 Sep 2005 08:17:58 PM PDT