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Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 2:50
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Subject: [meteorite-list] What's Your
Favourite Ordinary Chondrite?
G'day List,
Today I got to thinking how most of the
'Prestige' in meteorites generally goes to the Achondrites, Pallasites
etc. The good lookers! ;-) So I thought I would throw this out to
everyone and ask what your favourite Ordinary Chondrite is because there are
some really amazing meteorites which this classification. It doesn't matter
what your reason is. It may be that it's just a really attractive piece or
possibly the story behind how it was found or fell. If everyone gets into
the spirit of it, I'll tally up all the answers in a week or so and
let everyone know the Top Picks! We may find some surprising results! You can
give up to 5 favourites and I'll start with
these picks:
1) Knyachinya (L/LL5) - Birthday meteorite with
great fresh crust and a really nice colourful brecciated matrix.
2) Parnallee (LL3.6) - Put simply: Rare, Old
and Awesome matrix.
3) NWA 965 (LL4) - Tiny TKW with a matrix choc
full of multi-coloured crisp chondrules.
4) Richfield (LL3.7) - If you haven't seen a
larger piece or a good photo of one; time to change that!
5) Bensour (LL6) - As fresh & dramatic as
it gets. Whitish matrix with jet black fusion crust! Too cool!
Looking forward to hearing some
responses,
(P.S. It's not as easy as you
think!)
