[meteorite-list] Michael Cottingham's NWA 2690 - a Eucrite or a Howardite?

From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: 18 Sep 2007 21:30:55 UT
Message-ID: <DIIE.000000C400001F89_at_paulinet.de>

Hello All!

Have you already seen Michael Cottingham's interesting NWA 2690 "eucrite"
on EBay? He is still offering it at a 20% discount. Not only is it an interesting,
aesthetically beautiful HED stone but its classification details are also a bit
surprising or even somewhat puzzling! Even though it looks like a howardite, it's
been classified as a eucrite. So far, so good. At the same time it is supposed
to be paired with NWA 1929 which was classified as a howardite !?

Michael speaks of an overlapping classification, so, if this classification and
this pairing is not a typo, we would have an extremely interesting representative
of the HED suite.

Anyway, it's a beautiful "eucrite-howardite", ... well worth a look!

Best wishes and
off to bed!

Bernd
Received on Tue 18 Sep 2007 05:30:55 PM PDT