They look like ordinary sedimentary rocks to me with grains of quartz. I am no expert but it would take alot to convince me these are anything but Earth rocks.
Keep trying though, sooner or later your luck is bound to change. Mark M. ----- Original Message ----- From: M Yousef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 3:31 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] highly weathered chondrites > > Hiii and happy new year,,, > > I have recently found few rocks (over 5 Kg total) that I believe is > chondrite. The bottom half of one of these rocks (~1.5Kg) was (for long > time) inside the hot and wet soil and was highly weathered that it became > very soft and can be crushed very easily. I could separate the chondrules > (that are still very hard, milky, glassy, and well in shape). Whereas the > upper side of the rock is very hard and it seems that the chondrules have > been melt away and left behind semi spherical holes on the surface. > > My questions are: do you think that this is a meteorite at all? Why the > surface chondrules melt away whereas they are very hard and stronger than > the bulk material in the bottom half; as if the effect of high temperature > is opposite to the effect of wet soil? Can we estimate the age from this > highly weathered state? > > I have also found inside this rock white crystalline pieces of irregular > shape, 3-5 mm wide, any idea what are these? > > see nice pictures here: http://www.alifyaa.com/mf/cndrl/ > > > Sincerely > > Mohamed H. Yousef > ---------------------------------------------- > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
