[meteorite-list] NWA 2140 smells like gum?

From: Walter Branch <waltbranch_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 20:18:47 -0500
Message-ID: <004a01c7180b$50bf2700$6101a8c0_at_BranchFamily>

Murchison? Bubble gum?
Asphalt maybe, but bubble gum?

Are your sure it was bubble gum?

-Walter
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Mike Bandli" <fuzzfoot at comcast.net>; "'Meteorite Mailing List'"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 2140 smells like gum?


> Hi,
>
> Bob Haag reported that one fresh Murchison
> kept in a mason jar from immediately after the fall
> smelled very strongly and aromatically like fresh
> bubble gum! (This was, I believe, only a week
> or two after the fall.)
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Bandli" <fuzzfoot at comcast.net>
> To: "'Meteorite Mailing List'" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 5:14 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] NWA 2140 smells like gum?
>
>
> I received two slices of this CV3 meteorite and noticed they smell like
> fruity gum. It's very weak but definitely noticeable. Yes.I smell all my
> meteorites when I get them.it can't be that strange of a ritual. Anyone
> else
> out there with NWA 2140 notice this? Or did my dealer happen to be wearing
> his wife's Bath 'N Body Works hand lotion when he packed my slices.
>
> I remember some other C meteorite having similar scent, no?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mike Bandli
>
>
>
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