Mike T. wrote: "I still have a nice piece of NWA 1685 for sale on ebay. It did not sell first go around so I dropped the price. Nice to look at if your not interested in buying."
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6580283897&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 Hello from the owner of two NWA 1685 individuals cut in two halves and two NWA 1685 thin sections: The matrix and texture of Dean's BL chondrite is one of the most beautiful things you'll ever have seen come from NWA. It is brecciated, inclusion-rich, and clast-rich. Some clasts are so featureless that I decided to buy two NWA 1685 thin sections from Dean when he had them on EBay and find out what these looked like under the microscope. TS#1 almost knocked my socks off and made me doubt if that could be an LL5 or an LL6. These areas look almost achondritic, not a trace of something chondrule-like. The term "metachondrite" had not been born yet at that time, but that's what the featureless portions of this beauty look like: Thousands of tiny, colorful crystals evenly distributed, and, as I said before, not the slightest hint of a chondrule or relict chondrules in these parts of the matrix. Cheers, Bernd ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
