i live in ny and i want to see the leidonds wut time at night should i go ? thanks luis:0) ----- Original Message ----- From: Rafael B. Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Desert Varnish
> Hello everyone����..Ive been offline for two days and Ive seen this list > kinda quiet for now. There has been a topic in this list that I would like > to know about. > I live in the northern mexican desert, and Im quite familiar with desert > varnish in rocks and its appearance. I dont like desert varnish in normal > rocks cuz this makes impossible to look for meteorites around here, because > every rock around here seems to be covered with the black and dark desert > crust. Ive been fooled more than once thinking normal rocks are meteorites, > cuz from far away some rocks seem to be meteorites, even in huge sand dunes > where the sand is almost white and very fine. I dont know what causes desrt > varnish, Ive been told its from the radiation of the sun. The desert varnish > around here is like a fusion crust on meteorites, but it has rough texture > and opaque shine. > > Desert varnish in meteorite I have from the Sahara desert seem like dark and > others are light red or orange. I think this in part is because of the > interior make up of meteorites, but if its desert varnish, why is it so > shiny and soft?, does anybody know what causes desert varnish in > meteorites?, and does it differ from desert to desert?. I think ths desert > varnish may have clues of the time the meteorite has spent in the Earth. So > this desert varnish is a sign of severe weathering on the meteorite or not? > > > > =0) > Rafael B. Torres > Space Collection 2001 > http://www.geocities.com/rafael_blando > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
