[meteorite-list] New Eucrite? - Eastern Slovakia

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:32:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <120785.42843.qm_at_web53104.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Eric, Another surprising point; DID you happen to take a look at the fusion crust??? Anyone with experience as you claim should have noticed the fusion crust; is this what would be expected from a a Eucrite?
  Dirk Ross...Tokyo

--- On Thu, 4/1/10, Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com> wrote:

From: Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com>
Subject: [meteorite-list] New Eucrite? - Eastern Slovakia
To: "Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010, 5:18 AM

Take a look at the photos in the article, does this appear to be an achondrite/eucrite maybe?

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On the eastern Slovakia fell meteorite, scientists found fragments of
http://www.rozhlas.cz/zpravy/vesmir/_zprava/714433
Eastern Slovakia fell to an hour before midnight on 28th February tens of kilograms of rock from space. These were fragments of a meteorite that burned up in atmosphere, lit up the sky in a radius of several hundred kilometers and frightening residents.

Some fragments of the meteorite, astronomers have found, researched and today it is first shown to the public. How Radio?urn?l said Marek Husa??k of the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the largest piece weighs over two kilograms.
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Interview with Mark Husa??k from the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in the afternoon Radio?urn?l
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"It has a dark gray color is relatively heavy compared to other stones, which are normally found on Earth," described Husa??k rare find.

Scientists have found fragments of municipalities of Klatovy Vy?n? west of Kosice. Whence meteorid arrived, trying to find Slovak astronomers, together with experts from the Ondrejov Observatory of the Academy of Sciences.

"Identify heliocentric orbit is not easy, it is necessary to determine the position of being the largest pieces of which we have actually only one," said Husa??k.

Impacts of meteorites on Earth are referred to him a frequent phenomenon, but it is not easy to record. "Specifically, the Slovak has been observed, there are five falls. Recent findings from the 1994 Rumanov? the village, "he said.

Part of the material universe is now going to analyze the composition, more debris then end up in museum in the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic and Hungary. It then comes under Husa??k important video that helped to identify the impact site.
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Regards,
Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA
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