[meteorite-list] Christian Anger + Gero Kurat (1938-2009)

I am deeply saddened to learn about the death of Christian, a fellow collector and friend for so many many years. Sadly, this is not the only terrible news from Austria, recently: Prof. Gero Kurat, the former curator of the meteorite collection at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria,

Re: [meteorite-list] Book offers

=812697435 http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=810823942isbn=011895 2. Flight, W. A Chapter in the History of Meteorites http://www.biblio.com/books/111241915.html No guarantee, if books are still available. I did not ask the seller as I already have them in the library. Cheers, Jörn

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad Unusual Meteor Crater stock sale

Dear Mike, I may be interested in the (first) stock #16. What is the price and do you have an image? Best wishes from hot sunny Bremen, Jörn _ Jörn Koblitz Managing Editor Publisher The MetBase Library of Meteoritics and Planetary

Re: [meteorite-list] Nulles (Spain) meteorite

Hi Pierre-Marie, I think Nulles was first reported here: ESCOSURA L. DE LA (1852) Análisis del aerolito que cayó en las immediaciones del pueblo de Nulles de la provincia de Tarragona en 5de noviembre de 1851. Rev. minera, met. y ing. Madrid 3, 246-247, 407-410. Cheers, Jörn Koblitz

[meteorite-list] New book on the history of meteoritics

at a special rate (30% off list price) and there may be a chance also for you to get this rate. I still have the special rate order form and could provide a copy to those seriously interested in this special publication. Best regards, Jörn Koblitz Here the details: The History of Meteoritics

AW: [meteorite-list] How many Hexahedrites are there?

Hello Tim, There are 62 hexahedrites known to date. Please notice that not all IIAB irons are hexahedrites (many are coarsest octahedrites, Ogg) and that not all hexahedrites are IIAB irons (there are a few hexahedrites of taxonomic group IIG known). Regards, Jörn Koblitz / MetBase

AW: [meteorite-list] How many Hexahedrites are there?

that the Bulletin is not yet ready and am impatiently wating for it, too. Best wishes and have a nice vacation (meteorite hunting?) Jörn / MetBase -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Alexander Seidel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. August 2006 11:47 An: Jörn Koblitz; [EMAIL PROTECTED

WG: [meteorite-list] Wolf Creek total mass

Hello Bernd, There is (presently) no online version of MetBase which Matteo mentions in his post. His information is derived from Jeff Grossman's Meteoritical Bulletin database (see link below). London NHM as well as MetBase don't give a the TKW for Wolf(e) Creek. So, I don't know where the

AW: [meteorite-list] Collections in MetBase

don't want to have their collection data disclosed. Further, public repositories holding just a single meteorite (the main mass) are always named in the Meteoritical Bulletins (a prime source of information), whereas private possessors are often undisclosed. Best regards, Jörn Koblitz MetBase

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Fe, M.Shima et al., Meteoritics, 1983, 18, p.87. Jörn Koblitz / MetBase -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von M come Meteorite Meteorites Gesendet: Freitag, 3. März 2006 12:46 An: ZZ ML Meteorite-List Betreff: [meteorite-list] Nogata

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as possible. However, it can never represent the state of all collections at a certain time as publication dates of these catalogs and inventory lists vary. I invite everybody to send me her/his meteorite collection list and I will be happy to add the data to MetBase. Best wishes, Jörn Koblitz

[meteorite-list] AW: MetBase Website online

: also have a look at the following page: http://www.metbase.de/aboutus/library/index.html Best regards, Jörn Koblitz MetBase editor __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite

AW: [meteorite-list] 100 year old meteorite story from Sweden

I think he was talking about the fossil meteorites Brunflo, Osterplana and others found in Sweden rather than fossils in meteorites. Look here: http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Mar04/fossilMeteorites.html Best regards, Jörn -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

AW: [meteorite-list] Another Ebay fraud?

. No Widmanstätten pattern visible, which is quite common for a IIICD (now IAB-sLM) group member. Cheers, Jörn Koblitz -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Pete Pete Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. August 2005 12:45 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite

AW: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - July 26, 2005

Hello Moni, What a great piece and the flow lines are great! Indeed, this is a unique meteorite. It also got the lowest Ge content of any known iron meteorite. Does it look very porous though? It is not porous at all, but got well developed regmaglypts and a black fusion crust. Why is

AW: [meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - July 15, 2005

This is the Armanty (synonym: Xinjiang) iron. Jörn -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von M come Meteorite Meteorites Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 12:04 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re:

AW: [meteorite-list] Some Images of the Randsburg California Iron

Hello Adam, I am far from judging on your new iron whether it is paired or not, but silicate inclusions (better: silicate/graphite assemblages) are rather common in Campo del Cielo. The average kamacite bandwidth is 3 mm, but as usual for coarse to coarsest octahedrites, it varies a lot. What

AW: [meteorite-list] Some Images of the Randsburg California Iron

The silicate inclusions in CD have been extensively studied, especially those of the 3100kg El Taco mass, which was split into large sections at Max-Planck-Institute, Mainz, 30 years ago. They are of Odessa type and not really special (T.E.Bunch et al., Contr. Miner. Petrol., 1970, 25, p.297).

AW: [meteorite-list] How I (mis)treated my Brahin

Hello Gran, I bought a Brahin slice about eight months ago. When I got it it was already rusty even though it was sealed. The rust were everywhere under the lacquer and had even seeped through and stained the paper it was wrapped in. If the specimen prepared this way wasn't well dried before

WG: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim

Hello Vincent, A nice slice (before). Although I don't know this dealer, I would be careful to blame him on this. Brahin is well known as a heavy ruster. If you don't store the material in a very, very dry environment (e.g. Excicator w/desiccant), noone can really guarantee for a lifelong

AW: [meteorite-list] Ensisheim

Dear Vincent, Then, I put it in a Tupperware full with isopropilic alcohol... This was certainly the wrong way, because: alcohol (ethanol as well as isopropanol) is quite hygroscopic, i.e. it will absorb a lot of water. Even if you seal the plastic bag, it does not work as humidity will

AW: [meteorite-list] Saint-Germain du Pinel

82g: Helsinki, Geol. Mus. Univ. Jörn / MetBase -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Pelé Pierre-Marie Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Mai 2005 18:30 An: MeteoriteList Betreff: [meteorite-list] Saint-Germain du Pinel Hello Martin,

AW: [meteorite-list] Portales Valley

of this fall is not widely distributed in collections and has rarely been offered for trade. Anybody interest can contact me off-list. Best regards, Jörn Koblitz __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net

AW: [meteorite-list] Seeläsgen IIICD missing mass

Hello Marcin, MetBase lists a total of 57 kg in 77 collections worldwide. If one considers loss due to cutting and grinding, material lost in World War I and II and some specimens hiding in unknown collections, I think the numbers are reasonable. This is an old meteorite (said to be paired

Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Rocks From Space Picture of

Dear Tom and Roman, Unfortunately, it did not land on a marshmallow! Actually, it broke almost parallel to the brustseite (front side). It is indeed surprising that these comb fingers survived the impact on the ground. Anyway, it is the best meteorite I ever found in a desert, very fresh,

AW: [meteorite-list] Golden Mile meteorite

/S1/W1 Cheers, Jörn Koblitz / MetBase -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Pelé Pierre-Marie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. März 2005 10:01 An: MeteoriteList Betreff: [meteorite-list] Golden Mile meteorite Hello to the List, I'm searching for the tkw of Golden

AW: [meteorite-list] Dho 025 lunar

trapped in the silicates) by an impact event can explain the bubbles. See also: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2001/pdf/1502.pdf Cheers, Jörn Koblitz / MetBase -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 21. Februar 2005 13:31

AW: [meteorite-list] European lost orders

Hello Svend and list, I also faced similar problems with USPS shipments last year. 2 parcels with valuable Weston specimens got lost in August and October last year. The first parcel with 20g Weston was shipped unregistered(!), the second one registered, but uninsured. At first, the US dealer

AW: [meteorite-list] Is Brahin a ruster ?

Hi List, back in the 1980s, I got a large, beautiful Admire slice. I kept it at low humidity and also added corrosion inhibitor to the bag in which the slice was wrapped in. During the first 10 years I checked for signs of rust from time to time. It was okay, no rust, very stable. So, I kept

AW: [meteorite-list] Chiang Khan

Hello Martin and Zelimir, Additionally to what you listed, I could find the following repositories and weights for Chian Khan: 682g: Tucson, Haag Colln. 71g: Kankakee, Illinois, J.Schwade Colln. 67.9g: Zürich, J.Nauber Colln. 44g: Kanagawa, Mus. Nat. Hist. Cheers, Jörn -Ursprüngliche

AW: [meteorite-list] John's Interesting Iron Meteorite, NWA 2677

Hello John, Mark and Martin, From the pictures I've seen of this nice iron meteorite, it looks to me like the kamacite bands are recrystallized. If this is just for the outer part of the meteorite, it is most likely the feat-affected zone, also called alpha-2 zone, generated during atmospheric

AW: [meteorite-list] Meteorite finds per state?

Dear Darren, With only 6 reported meteorites for South Carolina (SC), the number is comparably low: For comparison: North Carolina - size 53,821 sq miles / 30 meteorites = 1 meteorite per 1794 sq miles Georgia - size 59,441 sq miles / 23 meteorites = 1 meteorite per 2584 sq miles New Mexico -

AW: [meteorite-list] RE: Dronino rusting

PROTECTED] Betreff: [meteorite-list] RE: Dronino rusting - Original Message - From: Jörn Koblitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. the SECOND best solution is to draw the salts out of the cracks by applying electrolysis using KOH or NaOH solution (electrochemical cleaning). This technique is well

AW: [meteorite-list] Juancheng vs. Taza

Hello Listees, What is your opinion about this Taza specimen also offered on ebay by rozen111: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2292198278fromMakeTrack=true To me it looks very similar to the Juancheng piece also offered by the same dealer

AW: [meteorite-list] Oriented vs orientated

A google search yielded roughly 15 times as many hits for oriented (24.900.000) than for orientated (1.480.000). Both are adjectives according to my online dictionary. May be one hint: I found orientated only used in the sense of being focused (e.g. market-orientated, customer-orientated,

WG: [meteorite-list] Preservation of iron meteorite

Dear Taylor, Sorry for my late reply. I'm not online on weekends. Will this work for iron?... It is working! I have done this in the past with Toluca and Campo del Cielo specimens. The only disadvantage (beside the work involved) of the elecrochemical cleaning is, that present limonitic

AW: [meteorite-list] RE: Dronino rusting

. However, you have to change the desiccant very often. Otherwise, it will have the same effect as without desiccant (see above). Best regards, Jörn Koblitz / MetBase -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jonathan Gore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 26. November 2004 06:45 Cc

WG: [meteorite-list]: Preservation and storage of iron meteorites

. However, you have to change the desiccant very often. Otherwise, it will have the same effect as without desiccant (see above). Best regards, Jörn Koblitz / MetBase -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jonathan Gore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 26. November 2004 06:45 Cc

AW: [meteorite-list] Fossils in meteorites / Hahn et al.

library and I can send scanned images to those interested. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Martinh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. November 2004 18:24 An: Jörn Koblitz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [meteorite-list] Most important meteorite? Jörn

WG: [meteorite-list] Fossils in meteorites / Hahn et al.

library and I can send scanned images to those interested. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Martinh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. November 2004 18:24 An: Jörn Koblitz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [meteorite-list] Most important meteorite? Jörn

AW: [meteorite-list] Most important meteorite?

that Allende and Murchison have a headstart of about 15 years, ALH 84001 will probably close the gap in the coming years. However, this is pure speculation as there are still plenty of studies on Allende and Murchison going on. Best regards, Jörn Koblitz MetBase editor -Ursprüngliche

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understanding of the origin and development of the solar system. Jörn -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. November 2004 14:49 An: Jörn Koblitz Cc: Adam Hupe; Walter Branch; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: [meteorite

AW: [meteorite-list] RE: Ad ebay meteorites

the ice and ended up in a moraine nearby the Transantactic Mountains. The difference to NWA is that Antarctic meteorites are curated by just a few research institutes that take care about classification and pairing. Best wishes, Jörn Koblitz / MetBase -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von

AW: [meteorite-list] meteorite prices

Certainly, there are many more ordinary chondrites (OCs) from the hot desert and rare types like achondrite probably make up just one or two percent of it... ...but, considering the fairly high prices for the rare types and the limited spending capacity of this market segment (collectors as

AW: [meteorite-list] meteorite prices

like Munich, Ensisheim or Tucson. Jörn -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bernhard Rems [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. November 2004 18:39 An: Jörn Koblitz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: AW: [meteorite-list] meteorite prices My theory (and I might be wrong

WG: [meteorite-list] meteorite prices

: Donnerstag, 4. November 2004 20:21 An: Jörn Koblitz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite prices Hello Jorn, What dealers pay wholesale and what collectors of smaller specimens pay are entirely different. If I purchased a stone for $2.00 per gram

AW: [meteorite-list] meteorite prices

Dear Matt, I don't think there are other areas comparable to North Africa or the Arabian Penninsula with their large plateaus, that are comparably meteorite-rich. There have been search expeditions to e.g. Gobi, Namib or Atacama. All did not really yield big numbers of meteorites. It is not

AW: AW: [meteorite-list] There are no silly questions? Wait until youhaveread that :-)

of cosmic-ray shielding effects. Does someone else has a good idea to explain these differences? Cheers, Jörn / MetBase -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2004 20:06 An: Jörn Koblitz; almitt; Bernhard Rems Cc

AW: [meteorite-list] There are no silly questions? Wait until you haveread that :-)

Dear Al and Bernhard, It's true that, beside the 12 distinct chemical groups, we have about 80 ungrouped iron meteorites which - following the existing models of asteroid formation and differentiation (core formation) - must be derived from 80 different parent bodies (PBs). As Gero Kurat

AW: [meteorite-list] There are no silly questions? Wait until youhaveread that :-)

material of these parent bodies found its way to earth and into collections. There seems do be a considerable imbalance between known types of achondrite and irons. Jörn / MetBase -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jörn Koblitz Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2004 17:44 An: almitt

AW: [meteorite-list] Re: Michael Cottingham

Hello List, Does anyone have the current phone number of Michael Cottingham (Silver City, NM)? The one I have (505-535-2307) seems not to be valid. Please email me off-list. Thank you. Jörn __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

AW: [meteorite-list] Sale - Howardite Blow Out

- gets its unique designation, it is just reasonable to follow the NomCom rules here. Jörn Koblitz -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: JKG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 17:43 An: Michael Farmer; Jim Strope; Meteorite List Betreff: Re: [meteorite

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to this list to explain this procedure, recently e.g. by Jeff Grossman. Cheers, Jörn Koblitz -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: mark ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 18:02 An: Meteorite List Betreff: RE: [meteorite-list] Sale - Howardite Blow Out

AW: [meteorite-list] Seymchan Pallasite

Hello Mark and List, here is an extract from MetBase on Seymchan: --- A mass of 272.3kg was found in the bed of a stream flowing into the river Hekandue, a tributary of the Jasachnaja, a second mass of 51kg was later found at a distance of 20

[meteorite-list] metal-rich diogenite vs mesosiderite-C

Dear All, It seems, there is a problem with the class C mesosiderites and the metal-rich diogenites, which may just be fragments of the same meteorite shower. In the last Met. Bulletin 88, the following classifications and remarks are given: NWA 1982: an ungrouped achondrite not paired with

AW: [meteorite-list] Mazapil meteorite

Dear Svend, MetBase records the following repositories and weights of Mazapil specimens: 3545g: Vienna, Naturhist. Mus. [main mass] 127g: Mexico City, Inst. Geol. [incl. 112g of 'Chichimeguilas'] 95.4g: Lvov, Min. Mus. Univ. 83g: New York, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 19.0g: Chicago, Field Mus. Nat.

AW: [meteorite-list] Enough is Enough, Now NWA 1877

Regarding the different procedure for e.g. NWA / Gao-Guenie - this issue was addressed in an email by Jeff Grossman dated Sept. 9, 2004 (see below). Gao-Guenie can be treated like Allende or Holbrook in this context as it doesn't apply to areas of dense meteorite concentration. Cheers, Jörn

AW: [meteorite-list] Meteorite with holes?!?

Hi Jeff, I think, it's weathered out - better washed out - matrix material, which has also removed some larger chondrules. Some ordinary chondrites - like Bjurböle or Saratov - got very soft and powdery matrix material. Chondrules can easily be removed from these meteorites. Jörn

AW: Re-2: [meteorite-list] Native iron in DHO 007

As far as I remember, there was an interesting article in Meteoritics some time ago dealing with the origin of the metal in another eucrite, Camel Donga, which also has fairly large amounts of Fe/Ni metal. Right now, I cannot check this publication for the arguments on the origin of the metal,

AW: [meteorite-list] BIOT

Biot's report is not an off-print of an article published before, but it was reprinted five years later in Encyclopedie methodique chim. et metal. (1808, Vol. 5, pp. 568-580). Biot also published his results more briefly in Bibliotheque Britannique (1803), Philisophical Magazine (1803) and

AW: [meteorite-list] Old meteorite books wanted

Hello Pierre-Marie, This really historical publication by Biot seems to be very very scare. I have never ever seen any copy offered for sale, neither on book auctions nor with antiquarian booksellers - and I am collecting meteoritics literature for more than 25 years. Let me know if you could

AW: [meteorite-list] Spaceflight and Meteoroids

Hello Walter and list, This is a nice reportby this Gemini astronaut. I have never heard aboutit or any other report alike. Interesting is the comparison of this meteoroid impact with a baseball fastball. As a non-American, I am not at all an expert in baseball but if I assume that a

AW: [meteorite-list] Possible Sahara 03500 Paired stone

Dear Steven, Michel and Doug, This is a fairly good picture of the meteorite. I looks to me like a chondrule-poor portion of an ordinary chondrite (L or LL), for example like Ramsdorf (L6-S5), which has large portions without any chondrules as well as the typical chondrule-bearing

AW: [meteorite-list] K20 in meteorites

Dear Michel, fairly high K2O values have been reported for C-like clast in the following meteorites: LEW 85300 (polymict eucrite) 0.47% (C clast) Supuhee (H6) 0.57% (clast) Krähenberg (LL5) 1.45% (dark portion) Miles (IIE silicated iron) 0.5% (silicates) Cumberland Falls (aubrite) 0.43%

[meteorite-list] Refined meteorite find statistics

Obviously, my post of Friday did not make it to the list, too. See below. Jorn -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jörn Koblitz Gesendet: Freitag, 18. Juni 2004 15:34 An: 'minador' Betreff: AW: What is meteorite awareness and how does it influence fall statistics? Dear Mark, I still think

AW: [meteorite-list] Statistics for falls

Dear Tracy, I'm always a bit late since I'm not online at evening times. Here is the MetBase statistics of observed falls and not observed finds from the very beginning. The most recent years may not be complete (especially 2002 and 2003). If someone wishes to have the Excel file of this

AW: [meteorite-list] Statistics for falls

The second column in the list is the total count of finds and falls and not the count of finds only. Sorry. Joern -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jörn Koblitz Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2004 09:15 An: 'tracy latimer'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: AW: [meteorite-list] Statistics

AW: [meteorite-list] Library dublicates

Hello list, During the past months, I could manage to acquire for the MetBase Library of Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences two major collections of meteoritics literature with hundreds of prints on meteorites and lunar rocks (mainly Apollo/NASA publications). After clearing up the library

WG: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall Rates

If 'increasing meteorite awareness' would result in a net increase then why isn't that reflected in the figures? I think, that meteorite awareness will not really influence the statistics. The billions of people, mainly those living in highly populated areas with low meteorite awareness

AW: [meteorite-list] What a deal!

Looks like a piece from Henbury crater strewn field. Not very exiting, except for the price. Jörn -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-Von: ken newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2004 15:46An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Betreff: [meteorite-list] What a

AW: [meteorite-list] Hainaut-Bettrechies total kilo weight ?

Interesting to see that there is such a large mass in a private collection. I guess it is from Brussels Museum as theweight has changed in about the same order. I will correct the repository information in MetBase accordingly. MetBase data: 8425g: Lille, Nat. Hist. Geol. Mus.1264g:

AW: WG: [meteorite-list] Classification question

to any ordinary chondrite. Only to carbonaceous chondrites. Jörn -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nicholas Gessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Mai 2004 02:30 An: Jörn Koblitz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: WG: [meteorite-list] Classification question While

AW: [meteorite-list] Classification

Dear Tom, The reason is rather simple: nickel test is only applicable to iron meteorites. For stony meteorites - about 90% of all meteorites - it would not give clear doubtless results and it even would contaminate the meteorite. In case of iron meteorites, the easiest way to identify the

AW: [meteorite-list] Reid 016

If I correctly remember, when this meteorite came up, it was first thought to be a brachinite. Classification later on showed itto bea poymict ureilite. References(MetBase): Listed; classification and mineral analysis by M.Prinz, American Museum of Natural History, New York; a polymict

AW: [meteorite-list] Bandong

Hello Bernd and List, There is not so much published on Bandong. The result of a MetBase literature query is given below. I did not have the time to check the papers for the original classification, but I guess that Jarosewich (1985) did the LL6 classification based on the wet chemical

AW: [meteorite-list] Bandong

Obviousy, I face the same problems with positings not reaching the list when the list email address is put under cc in reply to all option of MS Outlook. Joern -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jörn Koblitz Gesendet: Montag, 19. April 2004 13:01 An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL

WG: [meteorite-list] Classification question

. Joern -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 19. März 2004 22:27 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jörn Koblitz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hyphens / Slashes Bernd. Dave, Joern and others

AW: [meteorite-list] LL7 Chondrites

Here's a list of chondrites classified as LL7, the most recent ones not included. There are a some more Yamato finds that are listed without any petrologic type, since they are highly metamorphic - may be impact melts. Hard to classify, petrologically. Best regards, Joern MetBase name

AW: [meteorite-list] NWA 2058 and pseudotachylite

Shock stage: S6 plus ... S7, S8...? The problem with further increasing shock pressures is that the rock is extremely heated up to melting by the energy of the shock wave and the compression and shear friction involved. This will vanish all signs of shock the material experienced before the

AW: AW: AW: [meteorite-list] Amgala, Tsarev and Zag

and only a few exist there is room here for something to be learned. Sounds like an interesting subject, Adam - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jörn Koblitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 5:51 PM Subject

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for something to be learned. Sounds like an interesting subject, Adam - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jörn Koblitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 5:51 PM Subject: Re: AW: AW: [meteorite-list

AW: [meteorite-list] Books on Eucrites???

An: Jörn Koblitz Betreff: [meteorite-list] Books on Eucrites??? Thanks Joern. Do you know if a lay person as myself could possibly get copies of these for personal use only. Thanks again! Dave There isn't any commercially available book exclusively

AW: AW: [meteorite-list] Amgala, Tsarev and Zag

, 16. März 2004 19:44 An: Jörn Koblitz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: [meteorite-list] Amgala, Tsarev and Zag Joern, Thanx for the clarification on regolith versus the basic breccia types. As far as chondrites go...is a genomict breccia with a regolith

AW: [meteorite-list] Amgala, Tsarev and Zag

Tsarev noble gas data data: he_3he_4ne_20 ne_21 ne_22 ar_36 ar_38 ar_40 1,58121 0,540,540,600,420,11575 2,07108 0,780,820,880,830,201635 all values: x 10E-8 cc STP/g Reference: Herzog G. F., Vogt S., Albrecht A., Xue S.,

AW: [meteorite-list] Thomas Structure

A very interesting issue is that, as Kevin stated, nobody seemed to take notice of this remarkable paper published in Bibliotheque Britannique (Geneva). This journal was highly recognized and read in the early 19th century. Famous scholars like Biot, Howard, DeLuc, or Chladni published articles

AW: [meteorite-list] eBay ad - Ensisheim fragment - delete if necessary!

Dear Dave, Please notice, that Ensisheim is not the "oldest witnessed and recorded fall with material still existant" as you state onyou eBay sales page. It has been replaced by Nogata whichfell in 861 A.D.(see information from MetBase below). However, this does not reduce the value of

AW: [meteorite-list] Suizhou TKW question

Dear Terry, The first information on the TKW (70 kg) was given in the Meteoritical Bulletin (Met. Bull. 65, Meteoritics, 1987, 22, p.161). Later, in 1994, Y.Chen and D.Wang (Meteoritics 29, p.886) published a larger TKW of approx. 260 kg. One canassume that the more recent information is