Dave is not able to post at the moment, and rather than rewriting this I am
forwarding it for him. Obviously I had
concerns about specimen transport prior to acquiring the meteorite in
Conception Junction -- not because the landowner wasn't credible, but rather
because it was possible a the stone was transported by a native American,
perhaps centuries ago.
It's hard in photographs to notice this at first, but the average crystal
diameter of Brenham specimens we used for comparison was about 7.5 millimeters,
whereas Conception Junction averages only about 4.5 millimeters. It's
painfully obvious in a direct comparison that the two are quite different based
on physical characteristics alone (including several factors, not just crystal
size).
Then of course there are the findings of UCLA's Dr. John Wasson, the world's
authority on iron and pallasitic meteorites, which are detailed in the
monograph through his contribution to same. To summarize, he wrote, "The
information I report here shows there is no main group pallasite that is
closely related to Conception Junction. Conception Junction is unique."
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