[meteorite-list] Kalahari 009 (lunar) photo

From: MexicoDoug <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:05:21 -0500
Message-ID: <018f01c781fd$4a3bf1e0$facf5ec8_at_0019110394>

"Classification and mineralogy (...): olivine, Fa63?18; pyroxene Fs42?10;
plagioclase An85-98. The shock stage of the rock is S4, the weathering grade
is W1."

"wt.%: Al: 14.68; Si: 20.73; Mg: 2.68; Fe: 3.5; Ca: 11.1."

Thanks for posting the photo and the nice web page Randy. Would you know
how a weathering grade was assigned (probably there is more to this seeing
it was classified at Wlotzka's Max Planck) , I wonder how much iron and FeS
of the 3.5% Fe was actually available/useful to this end? W1 is
statistically quite a nice rating to fall off the turnip truck, wouldn't a
simple Antarctic "A" be more appropriate?

Best Wishes and Good Health,
Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Korotev" <korotev at wustl.edu>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:24 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Kalahari 009 (lunar) photo


> Here's a photo of the whole Kalahari 008 stone:
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> http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/stones/kalahari008.htm
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> I don't think I would have picked it up, and I sure wouldn't have
> even considered that it might be a lunar meteorite.
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> Randy Korotev
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> At 03:40 11-04-07 Wednesday, you wrote:
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> >Hi,
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> >This has all probably been on the list before...but I was not
> >following it at the time...so have these lunar meteorites just
> >disappeared without trace? Has anyone ever seen photographs of the
> >main masses and where are they now.? Have any pieces come on to the
> >market ever?
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> >Graham Ensor, nr Barwell UK
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