Hi Bernd! I have just got your emails just as I was looking under my binocular microscope at my specimens! And I concur, they really are fascinating - proves to me that there is no such thing as an "ordinary chondrite"!
And what is it that I am seeing? Heavens, I really need an expert here - right now! What are the black veins crosscutting the stone? melt? sulphides? what are the small spherical black spheres? Again, sulphides? Oxides? I need to understand the implications of why some chondrules appear to have large olivine crystals in a matrix - what indeed is the matrix? and so on and so on! Great stuff! dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernd Pauli HD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "metlist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 7:50 PM Subject: NWA 788 > Dave Harris wrote: > > > I've just got some cute little NWA 788 from Jim > > Strope (thanks Jim!) and noted they are brecciated. > > > Hello Dave and List, > > To me NWA 788 is one of the most visually appealing brecciated > meteorites I have ever seen. I also proudly own an 18.9 gram whole > stone cut in two halves which I acquired from Jim via EBay. It shows > awesome brecciation and fascinates me even more than my itsy bitsy > NWA 482 + thin section (also from Jim). In fact, the two halves I > got from Jim fascinated me so much that I acquired another piece, a > partially oriented individual with primary and secondary fusion crust > and outstanding flow lines (from Greg Hup� - also via EBay). I do > love this little breccia! See JPEGs in my private mail to you. > > > Best wishes, > > Bernd > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
