Has any SEMARKONA [Indian fall of 1940, type LL3.0 (S2)] ever been distributed to private collectors??? I very much doubt so. One of the "next best" primitive meteorites from Jeff´s first category, which has surely arrived at the collector´s scene, is the KRYMKA meteorite [Ukrainian fall of 1946, LL3.1 (S3)].
Yep, got my piece of this wonderful, pristine meteorite. :-) Alex Berlin/Germany > 1) It means that the meteorite was relatively unaffected by secondary > processes that occurred on asteroids, including thermal metamorphism, > melting, shock effects, and aqueous alteration. These meteorites are > the chondrites whose chondrules, CAIs, matrix, and presolar grains > are in the most pristine condition. In this sense, the most > primitive ordinary chondrite is Semarkona. There are several very > primitive carbonaceous chondrites, including Acfer 094, Adelaide, > ALHA 77307, and a few CR chondrites. Most of the meteorites people > have mentioned in this thread are not particularly primitive by this > definition. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
