Humm...
Did not look it up. I was not sure; relied on my sometimes defective memory, and for some reason I thought that Taza was 6 %. But if it is the other way around 16% plus, then the difference is still evident with the right testing. And I don't think an etch pattern will be the same.
Glorieta is as I read somewhere a tad under 10%... but that probably was from a small piece and variations can exist in this meteorite.
A high Ni content could explain why both meteorites still have fusion crust.
Anyway thanks for the correction.
Steve Schoner/ams
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Hi Steve,
> the Ni content for Glorieta is just a tad
> under 11% whereas as Taza is lower.
Not quite sure about this. Taza is described
as very rich in nickel (over 16%), whereas
you find 11.92 % Ni for Glorieta in Buchwald.
References:
BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of
Iron Meteorites, Vol. 2, pp. 597-601.
BREY S. (2001) Taza (Meteorite, Nov. 2001,
Vol. 7, No. 4, p. 5).
Meteoritical Bulletin #86, 2002.
Best regards,
Bernd
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