Thanks to BigJohn Shea for tracking down the belated bio of the meteorite formerly kown as 'Tissint 2'. This name became popular due to the proximity of its fall zone ajacent to the 2011 fall 'Tissint of Mars'.
An L4, the 3.79 gm specimen I won on eBay is an individual cut in half. This allows me to easily judge the thickness of its thick, satin- black crust. There's also one perfectly globular round chondrule protruding like a golf ball sitting in a divit. The interior is wall-to-wall chonrules in every shade of gray. There's almost no matrix but the 'starry sky' of metal comes out when you rotate the rock. >From early reports some thought a TKW of 3-4kg was likely but the metbull stopped the meter at 1,500 gms. W=0. Glad to have it. Kevin Kichinka
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