Andi wrote: "I have found on a 151g Erg Chech/Mali Meteorite a metallic inclusion, looking uncommon in my opinion. I would ask for some comments and thoughts about what this might be and if other people have already seen such an inclusion. The inclusion is attracted by a magnet. Hope the pictures show that the part of the inclusion, outside of the Meteorite, has a crystal form with well defined edges."
www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Inclusion1.jpg www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Inclusion2.jpg www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Inclusion3.jpg Hi Andi and List, Wow, a very intriguing feature of this Erg Chech individual. Well, it looks like a duck (i.e. cubic crystal habit), it quacks like a duck (i.e. magnetic), so my guess is it may be a magnetite crystal protruding from the matrix. Its cubic crystal habit reveals that it belongs either to the spinel series, the magnetite series or to the chromite series. Erg Chechically, Bernd ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
