Bob, Nice meteorite! This is one of the few times I can recall that the photo(s) in question was not a wrong! Wahoo! Best, ken
Robert Cucchiara wrote: > Hi List, I know you have all have been doing alot of meteorite > identification lately but i would like your opinions on this one. I > just > returned from Mexico where i met an elderly man who believes he has a > meteorite. He witnessed it fall while working in the hills as a miner > 20 > years ago and he says it sounded like an airplane approaching. They > went to > look for it and found a hole in soft terrain where he recovered this > 470 > gram stone. i asked him if he had searched for any additional stones > and he > had not. I inspected it and believe it is genuine but still had some > doubts. > It is magnetic and with a 10x loupe it has small metal grains. The > brownish > to black crust has expansion cracks but seem thicker than normal to > me. I > tried to convince him to give me nice sized piece for analysis, but he > did > not care to cut it. I was able to acquire a few fragments with crust > (about > 0.6 grams) that i was able to chip off fairly easily, so it appears to > be > some what friable. I snapped about 50 photos, so if anyone needs any > additional angle off list i can provide them. I can acquire this stone > along > with the location of the fall if proven meteoritic. Any opinions would > be > apprieciated. The links are provided below. Thanks again Bob C. > > > http://www.alamedacomputers.com/slp1a.jpg > > http://www.alamedacomputers.com/slp2a.jpg > > http://www.alamedacomputers.com/slp3a.jpg > > http://www.alamedacomputers.com/slp4a.jpg > > http://www.alamedacomputers.com/slp5a.jpg > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
