Zelimir wrote:

> Both are indeed so stunning and I have never seen such a beautiful 
> chondrule pattern (perhaps comparable to Sahara 98175 (LL3.5, S4,
> W1) while perhaps only Ragland or (especially) Krymka may present
> a more stunning  pattern).

I fully agree. There are 6 slices in my collection (all of them from Mike 
Farmer).
You find a whole lot of unique features in them including slightly oval, small- 
to
medium-sized, tightly packed chondrules and some brilliant white chondrules. 
There
are amorphous clasts (either carbonaceous or shock-darkened - not sure here 
[yet]),
large elongated clasts, large elongated lath-like inclusions, and the cream of 
the
crop is a 5.14-gram specimen with two totally different lithologies (one 
light-colored,
the other the usual dark matrix). Mike wrote about this one: "one note on that 
1933
piece, it was only one stone that had the clast like that, all the other pieces 
did
not show that."

> By the way, is NWA 1933 an LL3.0 or is the second digit so far unknown 
> (undetermined) ?

Heaven knows why it hasn't been fully classified. Jeff Kuyken who is also an 
ardent
NWA 1933 fan, has often asked this question before. This meteorite is so 
exceptional
that it would really deserve a two-digit classification.


Best regards,

Bernd

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