Truely a sad day for Brazil and all however the Bendego meteorite has
at least survived:
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/00ec8479c0e3b749032f0c0cbde1ffc3
Cheers,
Jeff KuykenMeteorites Australiawww.meteorites.com.auIMCA
eb.de>
wrote:
Sale of lumps of coal
suspended pending further notice ; -)
Am 10.01.2018 um 11:10 schrieb Jeff
Kuyken via Meteorite-list:
Hmmm... diamonds formed from
shock with the Earth's atmo
Hmmm... diamonds formed from shock with the Earth's atmosphere
or ground? Really? Can't say I'm convinced but happy to be proven wrong.
Although if I'm wrong I'm climbing up a tree and going to start dropping
Nice to see your contribution called out in this one Ron.
Thanks for all the posts your share!
Cheers,
Jeff Kuyken
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IMCA #3085
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this crowd funding would contribute to
another successful year.
http://www.pozible.com/project/189365
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That's a great site and the pics are really good! Thanks for sharing!
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Hi all,
There was a huge meteor event over southeastern Australia tonight that was seen
across both Melbourne and Sydney. Just google news search meteor and there are
videos piling up online everywhere. Twitter is also alive.
Just wondering if the gurus on the list are able to check any space
to provide.
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Great discussion.
I do know that NWA 2968 is almost pure olivine with 95vol%.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=33418
Cheers,
Jeff
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Paul is absolutely right.
And one other thing that some may not be aware of is that you will be ranked
differently depending on which country you are searching from and which
Google you are using. I get very different results with different
combinations of these.
Cheers,
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a comparison.
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Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2013 7:44 AM
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It's now been a few days and here are the results:
http://www.meteorites.com.au/images/fall-results.jpg
55 responses. (3 invalid Finds are not included in the data.)
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Congrats Bernd. Well-deserved recognition and a really nice gesture on Rob's
part.
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Anyone else see this? It's something white sitting between two rocks around
mid-pic.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152932582005103set=a.498242950102
.395373.156382705102
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Totally agreed Rob. As someone who collects primitive chondrites, I can say
that there are heaps of examples you might think are Type-3 but turn out to
be 4's. You absolutely need a thin section to tell with 100% certainty.
Cheers,
Jeff
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Hi Mike, all,
As an Aussie, I can say with 100% absolute certainty that this isn't
Murchison. It's not even close. In fact, I'm actually wondering it's a
meteorite at all as it looks more like some type of porphyritic rock. The
only meteorite I have seen that looks even remotely like this would
Hi Mike, all,
Those H-melts almost seem like they are only partially classified. Most
IMB usually have a petrologic grade associated with them as there is often a
part of the meteorite that isn't completely melted.
For example; NWA 7626 mentioned in the new updates says: The chondritic
portion
Bolden, NASA's chief.
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Just out of curiosity, what could this mean for the space-craft currently
orbiting Mars? I mean even if this misses (which it probably will) a comet
tail is pretty big and I'm sure there would be a lot of debris reaching
Mars. If orbiters go down then I'm assuming the rovers do too. This could
Hi all,
Mike Reynolds just posted this news story about the theft to the IMCA List.
http://goo.gl/7Xvf5
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Hi all,
I asked Geoff Notkin a month or two ago and he confirmed the Birthday Bash
will be on Friday the 8th.
Cheers,
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Blood
Sent:
I would like to pass along my congrats to everyone working in the Galactic
Analytics team! Great work... another one under your belt! By the way...
when are you starting on Aussie falls? ;-)
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Hey Steve, all,
Steve, you actually reminded me of something I thought of when I first saw the
statue story which I'm curious about. I have a small N'Goureyma slice that was
cut many years ago that has not rusted as such but displays an obviously
oxidised surface similar to the statue. Second
I agree with Dolores too and you would really need to see the pieces in
person. Some of you might recall how stones from some fresh falls can have
part of the stone with a shiny browner coloured crust. Oum Dreyga was one
that had quite a few stones like that and I think Bassikounou too. It has
if the weathering grade is W0 but cannot
be brecciated.
If anyone can assist in either providing one of these sample types or
pointing me in the right direction, could you please email me directly.
Thanks,
Jeff Kuyken
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developed to estimate what would happen if
asteroids of various sizes were to hit the Earth. The calculator, Impact:
Earth! allows anyone to calculate potential comet or asteroid damage based
on the object's mass.
Cheers,
Jeff Kuyken
Meteorites Australia
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Hey Erik,
Anything like this?
http://www.meteorites.com.au/features/nwa802pocket.html
Cheers,
Jeff
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Fisler
Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:04 AM
Hi Richard all,
We already have meteorites representing this possible scenario with numerous
Howardites containing carbonaceous clasts. Have a look at this piece I got
from Edwin Patrick Thompson about 6 months ago... beautiful material:
Hi Bernd, Norm all,
I have done some study of ancient Egyptian jewellery and made a point of
seeing that piece when I was in Cairo in ~2003. I also saw it about 6 months
ago here in Melbourne with a large ancient Egyptian exhibition. It is
definitely worth seeing in-person if you should ever get
Hi John all,
For those of you who may not be aware, the Met Bull has a great RSS feed
where new approvals come through automatically. It's a great service.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/meteorite-rss.php
Cheers,
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Great post Rob. Nicely said.
Cheers,
Jeff
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Sent: Sunday, 13 November 2011 8:59 AM
To: 'Michael Gilmer'; Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Hi Shawn,
What a great idea. Further to that I've just had a look and the list
archives all seem to be there in one form or including those no longer
available at the current archive. (pre April 2004) It looks like every email
may at least be archived within the txt downloads.
Cheers,
Jeff
Or dare I say Nantan! Ok... so kind of a different thread but at least you
don't even need to touch that one! ;-)
On a silent night you can hear the Nantans rust!
Cheers,
Jeff
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NASA appears to be updating via Twitter and mentions Canada.
http://twitter.com/#!/nasa
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[mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Rob Matson
Sent: Saturday, 24 September 2011 4:16
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html
Update #14
Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:16:50 PM UTC+1000
NASA's decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth
between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. EDT Sept. 24. The
satellite was passing eastward over Canada and
If real... WOW!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OfWgu5jk5g
Cheers,
Jeff
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[mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Jeff
Kuyken
Sent: Saturday, 24 September 2011 5:27 PM
To: 'Rob Matson
Well it should have just skipped over-head and nothing to report from
down-under... that I know of!
Cheers,
Jeff
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Sent: Saturday, 24 September
Hi all,
These grooves are not unique to Vesta and have been found on a number of
other bodies with numerous formation theories. In fact here is one paper
dedicated to grooves on asteroids and moons:
http://multimedia.seti.org/PhD2011/abstracts/PhD2-11-024.pdf
Cheers,
Jeff
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Thank you for all your posts to the list Ron. They really are one of the
things that make it great! If it wasn't for today's post I would never have
seen such a unique view of Mars such as this:
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023464_0945
Cheers,
Jeff Kuyken
Meteorites Australia
Very cool! A meteor pic from space taken from the ISS.
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronaut-photographs-perseid-meteor-from-sp
ace-110814.html
Cheers,
Jeff Kuyken
Meteorites Australia
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Hi all,
I would just like to address Pete's question and clarify that none of these
member's complaints were in regards to the authenticity of material. I
personally have no reason to believe that any of them have sold
misrepresented meteorite material.
Cheers,
Jeff Kuyken
Meteorites Australia
I couldn't agree more Bob. I've never received a badly prepared meteorite
for Marcin and every purchase from him is great! Many of my favourite pieces
have come from PolandMet so congrats on your 10th Anniversary Marcin and
hope to see you for the 20th!
Cheers,
Jeff
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Hi Michael,
It may have been the one I posted last week?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rev8vHjBq88
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To: E.P
G'day John,
Very interesting article... thanks. It reminds me of a story I saw a while
back. One of the things that is under-development for the return to the moon
is a spray that can go onto just about anything. It's one of those
remarkable developments where nature was used as the
or
concerns you may have so please always feel free to approach us.
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This really is an amazing must see video from NASA SDO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rev8vHjBq88
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I'm sorry you seem to have issues with the IMCA Dan but if you have problems
you could easily approach the association to report any concerns. I'm
wondering if this has something to do with you being removed from the IMCA
in the past and denied re-entry again last week? It would seem to me that
Hi Dan,
I'm not about to be dragged into a debate with you and do not have time to
read another long-winded IMCA bashing email. As I told you, I was away for
the month of May on a meteorite hunt at Whitecourt and travelling in the US
with no access to usual email. Your application was handled
checked my bags with dogs when I came back to Aus! :-O
Cheers,
Jeff
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 11:59 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Jeff Kuyken Finds his First Meteorite
Jeff, if you
I have a stone from years ago that appears oriented but weathered. It was
originally thought to be a planetary but that did not seem to pan out
clearly. The problem was that the very qualified scientist could not say for
sure what it was and could also not rule out other options like an Earth
Hi Paul,
The second one is right for Huckitta. (Huck-i-tuh) Actually I have found
that if you use Google Translate you will get a close approximation for
most of the Aussie names. It can actually pull off Millbillillie believe it
or not! ;-)
Just type the name in the first box, select the
I've recently studied up on Olivine Diogenites and Dunites and collated the
info from all the papers I could find. So further to Jason's info below, I
also found that a general rule of thumb is that Olivine Diogenites have an
olivine content of 40% while Dunites have an olivine content of 90%.
Hi Tracy,
Yes, the meteorites that are actually called Dunites are believed to be
from Vesta and represent a piece of the puzzle that had seemed to be missing
from Vestan samples for years.
A very important find was made in the form of two NWA's... specifically NWA
2968 (Dunite) and NWA
Hi Sonny all,
Everyone has raised some interesting points so far. I remember doing a bit
of study on this a number of years ago and one thing I found that stood out
was that in all the situations I looked at, when meteorites were found they
were ALL within 50km of where a sonic boom was
that may may not have this shortcut, you can also use:
http://eom.imca.cc.
Cheers,
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Would there be as many people interested in science if NASA had never
so much as launched a rocket?
A very thought provoking question!
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Jeff
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Sent: Saturday, March 19,
Hi Mike, Chris, List,
Personally I think Chris hit the nail on the head when he said But
realistically, a 10 meter object that was moving at hypervelocity all the
way to the sea, and near shore, would have produced a massive fireball,
rivaling the Sun, would have left a long lasting dust
over here from 10-80g.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 6:36
Hi all,
I have a few shocked chondrites where dark areas of shock and/or melt seem
to have whole chondrules enclosed. Does anyone know if chondrules are
actually more resistant to shock than general matrix material or has anyone
come across a paper mentioning this?
Thanks,
Jeff
Hi Richard, Greg and all,
I've got more than a few of those old handwritten paper ones Greg... does
that mean I'm getting old?! ;-)
Like Greg and probably most of us, I also evolved my cards over the first
few years of collecting. The cards I use now are actually business cards
from
My *guess* is that it is probably more stones of the Eucrite-IMB that has
been floating around for the last couple of years or so which also tend to
be small stones. There may be more than one type of Eucrite-IMB out there
though. Maybe those who have had similar material classified could chime
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928005.200-starless-planets-may-be-habitable-after-all.html
Starless planets may be habitable after all.
20 February 2011
LIQUID water may survive on free-floating planets that have no star to warm
them. If they also support life, they could act as
by the metallo-
graphic cooling rates of Winona, 200°C/Myr, and IAB irons, 10-50°C/Myr.
So, maybe these metallographic cooling rates can help make a clear(er)
distinction between the two: Silicated IAB's and winonaites.
Cheers,
Jeff Kuyken
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I would be a little careful about using 7103.10.00.00. This is actually
reserved for precious stones (other than diamonds - code is 7102) that are
unworked/simply sawn/roughly shaped/not mounted. It might actually have the
opposite effect and draw attention to your otherwise ugly old brown
I would tend to lean towards what Bernd has suggested. I'd be very suprised
to see this come back as an H-chondrite. I would hazard a guess at a Type-5
and likely an LL. (There does not appear to be any shock indicators you
would often see in an L.) These are just wild guesses making huge
It's been quite a few years since I've looked up close at this piece but
here's a Ureilite with something similar.
http://www.meteorites.com.au/features/nwa2624.html
Cheers,
Jeff
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Hi Richard,
I never did get a reply from a subsequent joke email I sent him asking
if he'd ever seen opal-like-florescing in a meteorite...
Maybe this will help:
http://www.meteorites.com.au/features/almahbas.html
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Richard Montgomery
I would like to say a huge thank you to Ruben and those who helped him! It
was fantastic to be given a great view of the auction throughout the night!
Awesome work!
Cheers,
Jeff
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Here's some food for thought... live on-line absentee bidding in next years
auction! ;-)
Cheers,
Jeff
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Sent: Sunday, January
of view of the cut
surface. Any help would be appreciated.
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It is a great idea. If my memory serves me right I think it was Gary
Fujihara who was keeping us updated during the auction via FaceBook last
year. It was very interesting for those of us who could not be there in
person so the idea certainly has merit.
Cheers,
Jeff
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Hi Elton all,
It's funny but I've always been under the same impression as Elton in
regards to the term bolide. I'm not sure why though! Basically I've always
believed the following to be an approximate summary:
Meteor - basically a generic term for all meteors and associated light
That's a great image Mike and the animated image of the smoke trail is
fantastic too. I've never seen anything like that done before.
Cheers,
Jeff
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logic would lead us to conclude that prohibitive export laws are not the
culprit.
My personal belief is that this is correct. Export laws can work and Canada
is an example of that. The problem here is not the federal export laws but
the individual state laws (W.A., S.A. N.T. in particular)
Hi Patrick,
This may help:
http://www.meteorites.com.au/oddsends/myths.html
Cheers,
Jeff
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Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:04 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Ram pressure
Hi Greg all,
I'm a little surprised to see any of these slices still available. I jumped
on Greg's offer several weeks ago when he first offered them and I must say
that I was not disappointed! It's a gorgeous meteorite and they are quite
highly polished slices with great surface to weight
Hi all,
In my opinion Sergey's label website is becoming the one stop shop for
meteorite labelling info. I highly recommend taking a look if you have not
seen it before.
http://labels.sv-meteorites.com/
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Stuart McDaniel
Only 15 minutes to go folks. Live coverage here:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
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I agree with Steve Bernd!
I must say that I also agree with Bernd regarding NWA 5507. It's definitely
one of my favourite Type-3 chondrites. Just spectacular!
http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/meteorite.aspx?id=49207
http://www.meteorites.com.au/favourite/january2010.html
Cheers,
I've seen other videos and know of other pieces this gold prospector has
found. To the best of my knowledge he just keeps them and according to his
YouTube comments, uses them as a heat bank for his heater!
Unfortunately for the finder, he doesn't own any of those pieces he found
while
Actually Rob has gone one step further than eating them with his infamous
Murchison Pinky tattoo:
http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com/catalog/murchtat.htm
Any super-powers yet Rob? ;-)
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Rob Wesel nakhla...@comcast.net
To: Melanie Matthews
Hi Tim,
I don't know a lot about them but I do know they often show up when ataxites
(i.e. Chinga) are etched. Here is an example:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=230500864867
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Tim Heitz midwestmet...@earthlink.net
To:
Hi all,
I made a page years ago on this as it has always been a popular topic. The
PDF paper is linked at the bottom:
http://www.meteorites.com.au/oddsends/density.html
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: ted brattstrom volcano...@yahoo.com
To:
and
expertise. For anyone who is seriously interested, please contact me
off-list for prices.
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Meteorite-list
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2010/pr201015.html
NASA's Hubble Harvests Distant Solar System Objects
Cambridge, MA - Beyond the orbit of Neptune reside countless icy rocks known
as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). One of the biggest, Pluto, is classified
as a dwarf planet. The region also
It looks so much like Acapulco so I'm going with Acapulcoite.
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Mike Bandli fuzzf...@comcast.net
To: karm...@email.de; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space
I've been reading up recently on various parent-bodies etc and there are a
bunch of theories out there regarding various irons and stones. One that I
can think of off the top of my head is that some consider the Horse Creek
iron to have a potential origin in common with the Aubrites and/or
Wonderful pieces! That Isheyevo specimen is absolutely spectacular! Thanks
to Laurence and Michael for sharing them.
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Michael Johnson mich...@rocksfromspace.org
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:11 PM
I just received my slice of this intriguing Diogenite and I want to echo
Bernd's thoughts. It's a spectacular meteorite and well worth a look at!
Cheers,
Jeff
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Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010
with its large, brecciated, coarse-grained crystals.
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com
To: Jeff Kuyken i...@meteorites.com.au
Cc: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; bernd.pa...@paulinet.de
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 1:45 PM
I remember when the first results from the Stardust mission were coming out.
Everyone was surprised to see the the CI chondrites did not match as well as
first thought and that the best match were the metal-rich CH chondrites. I'm
not sure what the studies have shown since then but maybe
That's a Dark Inclusion (DI) as per my email yesterday about them. There are
a number of different types of them which have commonly and traditionally
been mistaken for other carbonaceous-type clasts.
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Galactic Stone Ironworks
G'day Mike,
Interesting piece. I've seen a bit of a new CV3 meteorite coming out from
Morocco lately and much of it looks similar to yours. Firstly, take a look
at this page on Dark Inclusions:
http://www.meteorites.com.au/oddsends/DarkInclusions.html
It could be possible that the unusual
Interesting Norton piece Bob and well worth looking at the pics folks.
I was recently lucky enough to obtain a couple of nice Norton County pieces
and found that I was quite surprised by them. I didn't know what I'd been
missing all these years... it's a fascinating and unique meteorite!
That's a great Gao specimen Gary. Here's an example of amazing Tamdakht
'hitch-hikers'!
http://www.meteorites.com.au/collection/Tamdakht%20H5%205.012g%20(1%20of%205)-2500.jpg
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Gary Fujihara fuj...@mac.com
To: MEM mstrema...@yahoo.com
Cc:
G'day Carl,
Yes this is 100% melt material. By that I mean there is no main meteorite
piece that the others are attached to... just dozens of fragments held
together by fusion crust. VERY unusual stuff which I believe was dubbed
Ralewite in the past after Stefan Ralew who first bought it to
It's not really that simple unless I'm missing something. Has Dr. Jambon
studied a piece of NWA 5400? The way I see it is that one scientist is now
studying BOTH meteorites in a comparative study so on conclusion of Dr.
Irving's work he will be able to say with more certainty whether they are
Yeah it's a pretty riduculous argument when you think about it. If it didn't
touch/imbed itself in the ground??? C'mon! How about we skydive onto the
roof of the White House and see how they feel about that! Hey... we wouldn't
imbed ourselves in the ground! ;-)
Cheers,
Jeff
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