Dear List Members,
It is our pleasures to announce mystery meteorite contest number two. The
rules will be a little different this time.
New rules:
Only one entry per member. Last time we personally responded to over 240
entries and encouraged members to guess as many times as possible. The problem
with the old way is we felt guilty that some people were staying up all night
trying to guess. Some had to go to work the next day without sleep. The object
of these contests is to provide fun and knowledge. There is always going to be
a lesson learned. Last time it was researching the Antarctic collection.
Please post under this string to the list. This way there will be no
question about who gave the correct answers first. Nobody guessed properly
last time so this was not an issue. Just like last time if nobody gets all the
answers correct we will decide some fair way to award the prizes. In this case
there will be three specimens awarded, the three pictured below. We hope this
contest will be educational enough to warrant the use of bandwidth on the
List.
Unlike the last contest this will be a test of your visual skills. We will
provide a few things we observed about each specimen that were impossible to
capture in the images. You must guess all three correct so take your time.
Specimen number 1: This meteorite has a brown crust, is only very slightly
magnetic to a most powerful magnet, has white clasts in a gray matrix and
there is no sign of a basaltic texture or clast.
http://www.lunarrock.com/contest/dsc00001.jpg
Specimen number 2: This meteorite has a translucent black crust, has no
metal, every square centimeter is filled with shock veins and the matrix is
off-white with a greenish hue.
http://www.lunarrock.com/contest/dsc00002.jpg
Specimen number 3: This meteorite has a translucent greenish-black crust,
is only very slightly magnetic to a most powerful magnet and has white and
black clasts situated in a light gray matrix.
http://www.lunarrock.com/contest/dsc00003.jpg
This contest will officially end on February 1, 2003 at 10:00 am PST. Since
we will be in Tucson without access to a computer we will have somebody else
announce the classifications for us. That way nobody will go insane trying to
figure out what these items are. We will announce a winner on February 15,
2003. The mystery main masses will be displayed in Tucson in room 130 at the
Best Western Executive Inn in case anybody cares to find out at the show
rather than waiting for a post to the List.
Wishing List members whom decides to accept this challenge, good luck!
All the Best,
Adam and Greg Hupe
The Hupe Collection
IMCA 2185
