Hi Ann, I am in midst of preparing a full paper on NWA 8159 for peer-review. In the meantime, here are some conference abstracts that have more info than the MetBull entry:
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2014/pdf/2036.pdf http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2014/pdf/5397.pdf It is a unique new martian meteorite type for a number of reasons, to mention a few: age, shock, mineralogy, isotopes. 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 Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Anne Black via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: > I am curious. > I did look up this martian, NWA 8159 in the Met. Bulletin, odd rock with > characteristics of all 3 of the SNC, so what is it? > An heterogeneous meteorite? > The missing link between all 3 martians? > A mixture of types, something like Almahata Sitta??? > > I did read the description on the Met.Bulletin but is there more written > about it? Any papers published yet? > Did anyone take any pictures of that rock? > Would any of that explain the surprising price of $15 000.00 a gram? > > Still curious. > > Anne M. Black > www.IMPACTIKA.com > impact...@aol.com > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list