G'Day Tom
Thanks for your reply. I will personally accept "weird" as an official
scientific term. I tend to use it alot. And I agree on your very
descriptive term of encrusted in jewels.
Your images are more than fantastic. Keep up the great work. I can't get
enough of it!
Cheers
John
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] heavily encrusted dark grey
interior -largefind?
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
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