Amazing how fast time flies. Doesn't seem that long ago that a slice of LA 002 was considered unattainable, and was spoken of as the "holy grail" of basaltic shergottites.
Yet it's still a unique and UNPAIRED martian meteorite. But that was Mars rock #15 then, and this is now... Had to cut a slice of this Los Angeles stone for some researchers, and look what we found: <http://marzmeteorite.tripod.com/la2/la2lath56.jpg> and here is that same slice, but swabbed in alcohol: <http://marzmeteorite.tripod.com/la2/la2lath56.jpg> The alcohol darkens the groundmass, causing the pyroxene grains to stand out in contrast. The long pyroxene lath in the lower right corner is over an inch long (~2.5cm)! Has anybody seen a longer crystal in a Mars rock? Curious, Bob V. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
