Mendy, Not to meddle in other people's classifications, but to me the geochemistry and mineralogy does look like a brachinite and not a diogenite. Carl
************************************* 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: a...@unm.edu http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/ On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Mendy Ouzillou <ouzil...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Can someone please clarify why this is listed as a Brachinite instead of > Diogenite? > > Based on the composition being 90% olivine, should this not be listed as a > dunitic diogenite? > > > Mendy Ouzillou > > > >>________________________________ >> From: Fabien Kuntz <wwmeteori...@yahoo.com> >>To: "meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com" >><meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> >>Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 3:09 PM >>Subject: [meteorite-list] The NWA 6435 name on MetSoc Database = Nightmare >> >> >>Hello, >> >> >> >>because may of you asked about the statut of NWA 6435 on the Bulletin, here >>is the story (it have been discussed on the list with Norbert Kammel during >>the summer, the 9 jully, remember) : >> >>Maybe Jeff Grossman will explain this a different way (because at this time I >>have not understand all what happened), but I have a brachinite (now is the >>official NWA 5435) was for a time missnamed as NWA 6435 (this was the name I >>recieved from the classifier) ! >> >> >>So during a time, this meteorite had two provisionnal names (NWA 5435 and NWA >>6435, close in look, easy mistake) ! >> >>At the same time the NWA 5435 number have been assigned too, to a stone of >>Norbert Kammel, a chondrite (this is what was discussed on the list on early >>july). >> >> >>The official for my brachinite was choosed as NWA 5435 (it is now OFFICIAL on >>the Bulletin), and the Norbert chondrite was reassigned as NWA 3999... >> >>last year, I submitted to Tony Irving a new stone (working name K091 for >>Kuntz091), after preliminary work on it of Jean-Alix Barrat, and the NWA 6435 >>was finally reassigned to this new stone, the unbrecciated diogenite I >>introduced today. >> >> >>OK for me this is a NIGHTMARE, I just did what I had to did, and now I have >>to writte here a real novel to explain what happen, and collectors possibly >>interesting in slices of this meteorite maybe will be suspicious ! >> >>I suppose I have to wait (month, years?) for this mistake was corrected on >>the Bulletin... >> >>Fabien >> >> >>Fabien Kuntz >>Météorites (ventes, expertise, conférences) >>Animation scientifique et technique >>WWMETEORITES (Siret : 511 850 612 00017) >>www.wwmeteorites.com >>______________________________________________ >> >>Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >>Meteorite-list mailing list >>Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
