Hi Christian: Sahara 85001 had something of an interesting history. I purchased a slice from Blaine with the "Sahara 85001" name a couple of years ago. When I was typing out a label, it dawned on me that the Labenne Sahara "series" started with "97." So what was this "85" about. Then I found that it wasn't in the MetBull or the Cat of Mets.
Personally, I don't like these "candidate" meteorites in my collection, and this one is very worthy so I pursued it's origins. It was obtained by Blaine from Al Lang who told me that "oil workers in Libya" had found maybe 80 lbs. (or was it kilos?) but only "got out" about 7 kgs. He had sent some off the year before to a researcher at a famous Ivy-wall eastern-establishment-of-higher-education for classification and had heard anything back. He gave me the individuals name. I tracked him down and he responded to my email telling me that he WASN'T working on the rock. This info was relayed to Al. In my opinion, this weird mesosiderite needed some serious pedigree attention. I believe that Hall-of-Fame researcher Ted Bunch was the one that took this on. Since there wasn't much material left to sample, I'm not sure from where he got his work specimen. Nonetheless, the work was accomplished. Hence we have NWA 1242, S1, W=0, found 1985, Gillio, Libya, TKW - 7 kg. A unique MES, this one has metal inclusions up to 10mm (my slice has one of these!), and....... olivine inclusions. I wonder if this is some transition mes between MES and PAL........ It's a keeper. But here's a challenge. What are the lat and long of Gillio? The place ain't listed in MY Rand-McNally! Kevin Kichinka ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
