Totally agree Mike...well said...hope you've stashed a few nice examples too ;-)
Graham On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Michael Farmer <[email protected]> wrote: > Not to mention the fact that Zagami and the other Martian meteorites were not > treated properly, cut in water or oil, highly contaminated for decades etc. > This one is pristine, though touched by people in the field, in the lab > simple sectioning of larger pieces to get to the pristine interior of a > months old fall will provide endless research specimens. > I can't wait to read the papers on this one. > This meteorite will be a great gift to science and collectors, and to the > museums to take advantage of the cheapest Martian fall ever, a boon for > curation for centuries. > > > Michael Farmer > > Sent from my iPad > > On Jan 16, 2012, at 8:18 AM, Carl Agee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Of course time will tell how significant. But here are a few reasons >> why Tanzrou is important: >> >> It's a different lithology from Zagami, Nakhla, Shergotty, Chassigny. >> It has large olivine phenocrysts -- you don't even need a microscope >> to see them. Zagami and Shergotty are pretty similar to reach other >> from a petrologic perspective, so not just another one like those two. >> There may or may not be a similar olivine-phyric SNC finds in the >> world's collections. >> >> It has glassy melt pockets, I'm not talking just maskelynite, which it >> has plenty of too. You can see these glass pockets with the naked eye, >> so they are big and plentiful, and are great for holding trapped gas >> and other goodies from Mars, that don't end up in mineral crystal >> lattices. >> >> It is has minimal terrestrial weathering. This is great for these of >> us who want to know something about martian volatiles, the martian >> water cycle, knowing what you are measuring is real martian water-- >> not terrestrial -- that's important. Also the astrobiologists will be >> drooling (hopefully not on the sample -- haha!) to look for organics, >> knowing that anything thing they find is probably martian -- >> especially from the interior of a nice complete stone. >> >> There is enough to go around (at least for right now). There is plenty >> of material for destructive analyses, plenty for thin sections, plenty >> for museum displays, and plenty for collectors. I will set aside some >> of our Tanzrou for posterity in the IOM collection, not to be touched >> or tampered with. Fifty or a hundred years from now it will be much >> scarcer, and maybe someone will be happy that I did! >> >> Carl Agee >> >> -- >> Carl B. Agee >> Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics >> Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences >> MSC03 2050 >> University of New Mexico >> Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 >> >> Tel: (505) 750-7172 >> Fax: (505) 277-3577 >> Email: [email protected] >> http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/ >> >> >> ------------------------------------- >> Message: 1 >> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:09:11 -0500 >> From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <[email protected]> >> Subject: [meteorite-list] Tata-Foumzgit Martian Fall. The most >> significant fall of this century? >> To: [email protected] >> Message-ID: >> <cakbpjw_ysvr8jz7peh_bcc1av0vgcj9wujnjutyrt9dsruc...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Hi List, >> >> Would it be safe to say, that the new Martian "Tata" fall is the most >> significant meteorite fall of the 21st century, and perhaps of the >> last 50+ years? >> >> All things considered, this has the makings of a very significant >> event for science. This is the most pristine sample of Mars to arrive >> in labs for a long time, if ever. Even the freshest NWA finds cannot >> compare to fresh stones collected less than a year after the fall. >> The unbroken stones and larger fragments will supply science with >> unaltered, unoxidixed material for research. This new Martian is >> going to be widely studied, so I hope everyone is getting their >> microprobes warmed up in anticipation. >> >> Word has it that institutions and museums have been allocated a >> sizeable amount of material in terms of trades and donations, so there >> appears to be plenty of it available for study. It is safe to say >> that this new meteorite (whatever the official name turns out to be) >> will appear in a lot of papers and journals over time. >> >> For science, this is the next best thing to a manned sample-return >> mission. For collectors this is best thing since sliced bread. The >> only thing that could have made this fall better, from a collector's >> standpoint, is if a stone had bounced off a Bedouin tent and struck a >> camel in the hump. But, you can't have your cake and eat it too. ;) >> >> So, what is the going consensus on the details of this fall? >> >> Nickname - Tata or Foumzgit (mostly "Tata") >> >> TKW - several kilograms, probably less than 10kg. Much of this is in >> the form of large whole stones and large broken stones and that >> material has been absorbed into collections and is not likely to >> return to the market. Ballpark figure of material to be available >> eventually on the collector market is probably "a few kilos" (2-3kg?) >> >> Date of fall - July of 2011 (certain), actual date - July 25, 2011? >> Other reports say earlier in July (13-15?) >> >> Time of fall - day or night? (night?) >> >> Type - Shergottite, shocked, silver-grey matrix with black shock >> veins. Glossy fresh black fusion crust. >> >> Misc - witness reports include an audible explosion and popping sounds. >> >> Does all of that sound about right? >> >> >> ************************************************* >> >> Galactic Stone & Ironworks - Meteorites & Amber (Michael Gilmer) >> >> Website - http://www.galactic-stone.com >> Facebook - http://tinyurl.com/42h79my >> News Feed - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 >> Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone >> >> *************************************************** >> ______________________________________________ >> HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! >> Visit the Archives at >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ > HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! 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