On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:27:47 +0200, "Martin Altmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Each dealer and experienced collector, although if he/she's not a fan of >desert stuff like me, will tell you, if you'll present them a bunch of cut >stones, which one is NWA 869 ad which one is not. To me, at least, it seems that you can tell that if it is NWA 869 before it is cut. I bought a 3 1/2 kilo lot of unclassifed stones on Ebay a while back, and maybe about a quarter of them "looked" like 869 to me just from the appearance of the fusion crust. Since I don't have a saw, I was able to only window those that happened to have a smooth-ish, flat side, but of those, all that I thought looked like 869 on the outside looked like 869 on the inside (not that I'm complaining-- I have dozens of "known" 869s plus those "unknown" 869s but I wouldn't mind having a few kilos more). Here's a couple of photos I tried making from one of my favorites of my "unofficial" 869s. This one weighs around 30g. http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/unofficial_869.jpg ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
