Hello all
Just a reminder that we still have small pieces (<70 mg) of Tagish Lake
available.
Regards,
Eric Twelker
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> From: Bernd Pauli HD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:25:02 +0100
> To: meteorite-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Tagish Lake and Kaidun
>
> ZOLENSKY M. et al. (2001) Kaidun: A smorgasbord
> of new asteroid samples (MAPS 36-9, 2001, A233):
>
> One of the most intriguing results of research on Tagish Lake is that
> it may be a piece from a type D asteroid � this type of asteroid is
> supposed to be extremely rich in carbon. How does that finding relate
> to Kaidun? Kaidun is a clastic carbonaceous chondrite and the following
> components are present:
>
> - every type of carbonaceous chondrite
> - enstatite chondrites
> - shock melt clasts
> - many numerous hitherto unseen materials - plus: ...
> - a carbonaceous lithology with the same oxygen isotope
> composition as Tagish Lake
>
> So there was Tagish Lake-like material in our collections
> 20 years before Tagish Lake fell!
>
> In order to have accumulated clasts of many unrelated asteroids, the
> Kaidun parent body must have been large and the authors speculate
> that Kaidun may have come from ... Ceres.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernd
>
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