Hi, I have a piece of the famous bubble-gum smelling meteorite NWA 096, which to me smelled more like perfume. That was a few years ago; sadly the smell is gone. Irons, especially if they are rusting, have a pungent, acidic odor. Chondrites generally smell "dusty" to me with a shades of earthiness like rocks under hot sun. Occasionally you can smell the metal in them too, again especially if there is significant rusting. A slice of Allende I got from Bob Haag years back still smells like a strange mix of gunpowder and car exhaust. My two nosefuls (yuck, sorry ;-) Bob
-------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
