[meteorite-list] Why carbonaceous chondrites? (A "thank you" to Mr. Horejsi)

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <*meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com*> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 13:48:20 -0400 Message-ID: <CAKBPJW97OQ=dj9TNdqtro+GJ0b-jeCMOQvt9O_8u0keUovs-vg_at_mail.gmail.com> · meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com

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On 3/10/19, Frank Cressy via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> Hello Michael,
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> Martin does have a great way of describing meteorites.  My favorite was his
> way of describing the Cumberland Falls aubrite comparing an individual stone
> to a bread loaf, writing that many were sliced up like loaves of bread,
> resembling not "the rectangular blocks we Americans call bread, but the
> wonderful cushions that flow from European bakeries." He continued the
> metaphor, writing that "the oven of the Earth's atmosphere baked the crust
> on the enstatite-rich achondrite to golden brown perfection" that covered a
> brecciated, snowy-white interior filled with exotic herbs of chondritic
> inclusions and metal flake.
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> His description certainly makes your mouth water.  Maybe you'll soon obtain
> a slice of your own cosmic bread!
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> Cheers,
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> Frank
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> On ?Sunday?, ?March? ?10?, ?2019? ?06?:?54?:?08? ?AM? ?PDT, Michael Doran
> via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
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> My friends often ask me "What got you interested in meteorites?"  I honestly
> don't have a good answer to that question.  I do, however, know precisely
> when and how I was inspired to focus on carbonaceous chondrites.
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> As a newbie to the hobby (cough, obsession), I was reading through back
> issues of Meteorite Times Magazine when inspiration struck.  In a June 2011
> article about Nogoya, a CM2, Martin Horejsi wrote:
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>    "Gazing into a polished face of Nogoya is like staring into space
>    through a telescope. Everywhere you look there are interesting
>    features. Little galaxies, nebulas, constellations, planets, suns
>    and moons orbit the stone."
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> Up until that point, I'd considered CCs to be rather drab cousins to the
> bejeweled pallasites, sculptural irons, and multi-chondrule'd type 3 OCs.
> However as I looked at the accompanying photo in the article, I thought by
> gosh, he's absolutely right. How perfect is it that a window into the black
> interior of a CM2 meteorite can also be a window back out to the universe
> where it originated -- if only you have the imagination to see it. You may
> have to look a tiny bit deeper to see the beauty, but it's absolutely there.
> Anyway, that's what first hooked me on carbonaceous chondrites.  Now I have
> my own CM2 specimen to gaze at in wonder.  So, thank you, Mr. Horejsi!
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> -- Michael
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> [Resent to list after conversion to plain-text - I keep forgetting!]
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> Michael Doran
> Fort Worth, TX
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