Rosemary Hackney wrote:

> It sounds beautiful.

It is beautiful!

> Today I received my Henbury from Australia.

Congrats on your acquisition! Cut, etched, and polished
Henburys are even nicer. They display a great Widman-
staetten pattern.

> I am just as thrilled with this simple
> little iron as you are with yours. :-).

That's for sure because  m e t e o r i t e s - irons,
stones, and stony-irons are a   t h r i l l !!!

> Is it common for all the Henburys to be red?

A lot of them are - it's simply rust.

> It is Agoult I think that is reddish too.

As for Agoult, most pieces I have seen have a fresh, black
fusion crust but the matrix may have a slightly orange or a
very, very pale yellow/gray hue. Millbillillie eucrite fusion
crusts often have an orange hue because of the typical color
of the Australian outback.

Best regards,

Bernd

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