Re: [meteorite-list] New Iron Meteorite Finds

[John Divelbiss]

Norbert, Mark and list,   The statistics/estimates suggest somewhere near 86% of all falls are chondrites...achondrites make up 7%, iron meteorites make up 6%, stony-irons have the final 1%.   Not to many pallasites or mesosiderites... anywhere.   Do the NWA numbers suggest a higher number (%) for the stone totals, and less for irons and stony-irons? Seems that way. Does anyone know (or even an idea) about this information?   John ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Miconi To: ROCKS ON FIRE Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Iron Meteorite Finds Norbert, First Nice website.   Second and maybe you or someone on the list can answer this as it is along the same lines as your question regarding Irons.   Why are there no stoney meteorites found in Australia? If there have been Stoney Meteorites found there, what is the ratio of Stoney to Iron?   I have been on the list for 3 years now and can not remember seeing any stoney meteorites being sold that came from Australia.   Thanks in Advance   Mark M. Phoenix AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: ROCKS ON FIRE To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 3:34 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] New Iron Meteorite Finds Hello, List, does anyone know about how many new irons have been found recently compared to stony meteorites? It occurs to me that the market gets flooded with new chondrites every day but hardly any new iron, nut to mention stony irons. There are more than a thousand L's and H's just from NWA, I guess. It seems to me that apart from Campo and Nantan (yes, Sikhote and Brahin too) that stuff is getting rare. And it shows such nice etching pattern! -- Best regards from DOWN-UNDER, Norbert & Heike Kammel     ROCKS ON FIRE        IMCA #3420 www.rocksonfire.com