Question #1: Is this material a meteorite, or is it not?
And the corollary questions: Why is it so hard to decide whether it is a meteorite, or not? and What is it specifically that makes anyone think that this material is meteoritic-related? If it turns out that this material is meteorite-related, then kudos are certainly in order for all those involved in its identification, and specifically to the Hupes for being able to convince the researchers to take a second look at this stuff. Seriously, if I were to go to a university dragging in some "material" that looked like this and suggest that they should analyze it, I would be laughed at, and if I insisted, I could count on being ridiculed. If THIS is a meteorite, then I find this very problematic, because so many meteor-wrongs look just like this material. And every finder of a piece of vesicular slag that thinks it is a meteorite, will point to this Elma material and say, "Well it looks just like that material, and ITS a meteorite!" When "anything" can be a meteorite, identification of meteor-wrongs will be impossible. When trying to identify whether a specimen is a meteor-wrong or a meteorite, by visual means, it will become impossible to convince the finder that he has a meteor-wrong. I should look at the bright-side. This will free up a lot of bandwidth on this List! ;-) Bob V. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
