The Met Bulletin description contains the sentence "A significant portion (1/3) of the stones consist of a dark, fine-grained impact melt containing mineral and chondrule fragments."
Graham On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Anne Black via Meteorite-list <[email protected]> wrote: > Frankly, > If Chelyabinsk is not an impact-melt then frankly I don't know what is! > Look for yourselves: http://www.impactika.com/chely-slice.jpg > And dozens of other pictures right on the Met. Database. > And the classification was done by the Vernadsky Institute. > > > Anne M. Black > www.IMPACTIKA.com > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, Feb 22, 2015 9:38 pm > Subject: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk is not a impact-melt? > > > Steve and Quinn Arnold are telling us on Facebook that Chelyabinsk is not an > impact-melt breccia, and that Tony Irving confirms that. Is that true? Funny > when I google it, hundreds of papers discuss the metric ton of known > Chelyabinsk as all being impact-melt material. Of course, those of us who > went there and have a large amount of Chelyabinsk can tell you that it sure > seem full of clasts, and melt pockets and shock veins. Since his kickstarter > rock seems to be the only known LL5 melt (according to the (met. Bull.)and > Chelyabinsk seems to be nothing of the sort, it is amazing to me. > Comments? Anyone in this list, scientist or collector know something I don't, > that Chelyabinsk is a "non" impact-melt meteorite? > Micael Farmer > > > > > Sent from my iPad > ______________________________________________ > > 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 ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
