Hi Bernd and All, Thanks for the many leads and suggestions that you have given me, Bernd, but I'm starting to accept the possibility that the "M" (with a line through it) signifies that it is a "Meteor-wrong". :-( Which would explain why it was in the Ron Hartman Collection without a label.
The negative evidence against that supposition is that M001. thru M008. are nowhere to be found. But this "M009." may have been the best of the lot; a real "keeper". The kind that you save for those games of one-up-man-ship when the hunters sit around the campfire and talk about the heartbreakers that didn't pan-out. "You think that ones purrty, take a gander at this beauty, boys!" If I'm at a dead-end on this one, I guess I'll have to make a thin-section to confirm ID. But then again, if I convince myself that this is just a limy siltstone with a small patch of psilomelane coating the exterior, a cheaper/quicker method of IDing would be to take a small chip and dissolve the carbonate matrix in acid, then examine whatever silicate grains remain under a microscope. I expect I'll see quartz. :-( In any case, I'll report back the results to satisfy anyone's remaining curiosity. And yes, of course, I will cancel my "M009. auction" : http://tinyurl.com/pclbfg2 Again, thanks to everyone for their ID help with the label, and for those in the US Happy Thanksgiving, Bob V. On Thursday, November 27, 2014 3:17 AM, Bernd V. Pauli via Meteorite-list <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Could the "M" stand for one of these persons? > >Mike Martinez >Mike Miller > >Cheers, > >Bernd > > >______________________________________________ > >Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >Meteorite-list mailing list >[email protected] >https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
