[meteorite-list] Fw: holy grail of martian meteorites

From: Peter A Shugar <pshugar_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:51:35 -0600
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From: "Robert Verish" <bolidechaser at yahoo.com>
To: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:17 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] holy grail of martian meteorites


> Amazing how fast time flies.
> Doesn't seem that long ago that a slice of LA 002 was
> considered unattainable, and was spoken of as the
> "holy grail" of basaltic shergottites.
>
> Yet it's still a unique and UNPAIRED martian
> meteorite.
>
> But that was Mars rock #15 then, and this is now...
>
> Had to cut a slice of this Los Angeles stone for some
> researchers, and look what we found:
>
> <http://marzmeteorite.tripod.com/la2/la2lath56.jpg>
>
> and here is that same slice, but swabbed in alcohol:
>
> <http://marzmeteorite.tripod.com/la2/la2lath56.jpg>
>
> The alcohol darkens the groundmass, causing the
> pyroxene grains to stand out in contrast. The long
> pyroxene lath in the lower right corner is over an
> inch long (~2.5cm)!
>
> Has anybody seen a longer crystal in a Mars rock?
>
> Curious,
> Bob V.
>
>
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