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From: "Robert Verish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:17 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] holy grail of martian meteorites
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.
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