Thanks for the reads! Here’s one of my favorites:
“The black velvet evening gown of melted L6 drapes gently over the seductive curves of Zabrodje. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.” https://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2005/June/Accretion_Desk.htm -Martin On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 11:58 AM Michael Doran via Meteorite-list < [email protected]> wrote: > Another excellent description -- Martin definitely has a way with words. > > The loaf of bread metaphor also comes into play when I try to describe to > friends my preference for specimens that are "thin" end-cuts. They usually > say, "Oh, like the heel of a loaf a bread?" -- I say yes, but also explain > that in the meteorite collecting world, the "heel" is considered by some to > be the most desirable piece. > > Eater of good bread (and collector of awesome meteorite "heels"), > > -- Michael > > Michael Doran > Fort Worth, TX > > > On Sunday, March 10, 2019, 10:49:10 AM CDT, Frank Cressy < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello Michael, > > Martin does have a great way of describing meteorites. My favorite was > his way of describing the Cumberland Falls aubrite comparing an individual > stone to a bread loaf, writing that many were sliced up like loaves of > bread, resembling not "the rectangular blocks we Americans call bread, but > the wonderful cushions that flow from European bakeries." He continued the > metaphor, writing that "the oven of the Earth's atmosphere baked the crust > on the enstatite-rich achondrite to golden brown perfection" that covered a > brecciated, snowy-white interior filled with exotic herbs of chondritic > inclusions and metal flake. > > His description certainly makes your mouth water. Maybe you'll soon > obtain a slice of your own cosmic bread! > > Cheers, > > Frank > > > > > > > On Sunday, March 10, 2019 06:54:08 AM PDT, Michael Doran > via Meteorite-list <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > My friends often ask me "What got you interested in meteorites?" I > honestly don't have a good answer to that question. I do, however, know > precisely when and how I was inspired to focus on carbonaceous chondrites. > > As a newbie to the hobby (cough, obsession), I was reading through back > issues of Meteorite Times Magazine when inspiration struck. In a June 2011 > article about Nogoya, a CM2, Martin Horejsi wrote: > > "Gazing into a polished face of Nogoya is like staring into space > through a telescope. Everywhere you look there are interesting > features. Little galaxies, nebulas, constellations, planets, suns > and moons orbit the stone." > > Up until that point, I'd considered CCs to be rather drab cousins to the > bejeweled pallasites, sculptural irons, and multi-chondrule'd type 3 OCs. > However as I looked at the accompanying photo in the article, I thought by > gosh, he's absolutely right. How perfect is it that a window into the black > interior of a CM2 meteorite can also be a window back out to the universe > where it originated -- if only you have the imagination to see it. You may > have to look a tiny bit deeper to see the beauty, but it's absolutely > there. Anyway, that's what first hooked me on carbonaceous chondrites. Now > I have my own CM2 specimen to gaze at in wonder. So, thank you, Mr. > Horejsi! > > -- Michael > > [Resent to list after conversion to plain-text - I keep forgetting!] > > Michael Doran > Fort Worth, TX > ______________________________________________ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the > Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the > Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >
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