Dear friends of the extraordinary, for those of you going for heavy metal NMR currently offers an exhibition piece that would suit every Natural History Museum. The 1.78 kg cosmic intruder has been recovered from the Henbury crater field near Alice Springs in the late seventies and is one of the very few pieces that have been preserved in the condition as found: untreated, uncoated, uncut. The choice cabinet piece is listed on ebay, still at less than 60 Cent/gm, that is not even half of the market value:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=010&item=200004945989&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 The recent discussion on true brachinites vs. other primitive achondrites in mind I take the liberty to point you to another meteorite which scientists speak of as the "missing link" between the two groups. The Tafassasset meteorite discovered in the Republic of Niger has been classified in France as "Carbonaceous chondrite (equilibrated CR-like meteorite) or primitive achondrite". Other material from the same fall classified at the University of Freiburg / Germany received the classifiacation "brachinite like primitive achondrite". The olivine and metal rich 31 gm fullslice currently awaits bidders with a ludicroulsly price of less than 2 USD/gm. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=010&item=200004948601&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 view at your leisure. Thanks all for your interst. Svend www.niger-meteorite-recon.de ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
