Got mine today - Unbelievable ! What a beauty !
BTW: Who will be at Munich Show this year ? Greetings, Christian IMCA #2673 www.austromet.com Ing. Christian ANGER Korngasse 6 2405 Bad Deutsch-Altenburg AUSTRIA email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Hi John and List, > The Spade meteorite looks and reads like a very special find. It surely does! S2; W2; annealed imb; silicate darkening; chromite veinlets; martensite; ... .. just to mention a few of its peculiarities! My specimen is on its way across the "Big Pond". > Congratulations to Matt ... I concur! > For me Spade being an IMB is extra exciting because I > find the impact melt breccias to be very unique materials ... Right! Just think of Abee, Cat Mountain, Chico, Portales Valley, Rose City, Shaw, Smyer, etc. > The metal quantity looks extreme for the Spade material Looks almost like a high-metal E chondrite, doesn't it? > I also found the article on shock metamorphism by Dr. Rubin to be very > interesting. Occurrences of S5, annealed back to S2, and then shocked > again to S4, etc. ... So did I. Maybe meteoriticists will have to reconsider some of their shock level assumptions if Rubin is right! I got my thin L'Aigle slice today that I had bid on on EBay. Wow, how happy I am about this little L6 - "only" an L6, but the "history-laden" L'Aigle chondrite, that, along with Barbotan, convinced the last conservative bunch of enlightened scientists, that stones do fall from the skies. I love this little gem !!! Cheers, Bernd ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
