Hi John, I agree with you. It looks like a meteorite. Certain meteorites have "weird" (Is that the official scientific term?) adhesion properties. I have seen some scoured by the desert sand and other who seem to grab every piece of sand/rock and make it stick. It must have something to do with the desert varnish that is growing around the native material or perhaps simple mineral migration due to weathering.
I have a 7.3 Kg NWA that looks like it is completely encrusted in jewels. Fine sand bits all over! It is beautiful and unlike ant other I have seen. It has a brown interior so not a match to yours. I am embedding images. (I am sending this email to the list without pictures so if any one else wants to see the photos, just email me). Tom Phillips In a message dated 12/18/2008 7:59:14 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: G'Day Phil W. I sincerely doubt that what Phil has is slag, that's just my opinion. I also have a large specimen of 1514 grams and it really is unique. What he has described is very similar to what I have and I have forward him pictures and he has replied that what he has and I have are very similar. So we'll see what we come up with. Thanks for your input, it's really appreciated. Cheers John ----- Original Message ----- From: "JoshuaTreeMuseum" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] heavily encrusted dark grey interior - largefind? > Hi Phil, > My first reaction is: some kind of slag? It's amazing the different > kinds of slag people bring into the museum as possible meteorites. > > Phil Whitmer > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025) ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
