[meteorite-list] KATOL (L6) is official

From: Carl Agee <agee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:03:28 -0700
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Hi Mike,

No doubt an interesting meteorite! I guess I should qualify it by
saying the oxygen and the olivine and pyroxene geochem data are garden
variety EOC. I guess looks can be deceiving -- yet another testimony
to lab data being the "blind taste test".

Carl
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:
> Carl, the huge metal nodules, the large green crystals throughout the matrix, very odd meteorites, everyone who looked at it thought it was an achondrite, including many scientists.....
> I've never seen an L6 with white matrix and some pieces nearly green with crystals.
> Not your garden variety L6 for sure.
> Michael Farmer
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Dec 31, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Carl Agee <agee at unm.edu> wrote:
>
>> Super write-up by Laurence Garvie, but strange that there was so much
>> mystery surrounding what turns out to be garden variety "L6", albeit a
>> nice fresh fall. I wonder why people thought it was "achondrite-ung"?
>> Oxygen and geochem are unequivocal EOC, no mystery at all.
>>
>> Carl Agee
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>> Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
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>> University of New Mexico
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>>
>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Jim Wooddell
>> <jim.wooddell at suddenlink.net> wrote:
>>> Nice GeoChem data. Interesting to see the XFR data included.
>>>
>>>
>>> Happy New Year!
>>>
>>> Jim Wooddell
>>>
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>>>
>>> On 12/31/2013 8:14 AM, karmaka wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear list members,
>>>> Katol is officially listed as an L6 in the Bulletin now!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=Katol&sfor=names&ants=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&snew=0&pnt=Normal%20table&code=58500
>>>> Happy new year 2014 to all of you!
>>>> Martin
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