I agree the crust resembles HED components. This, along with the large green clast resembling diogenite material, is suggestive of an chondritic and achondritic HED breccia as improbable as that may seem. There may be an example somewhere but I can't recall an example ever being reported.
Elton --- On Mon, 2/2/09, Jeff Kuyken <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jeff Kuyken <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Green spot in chondrite > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Monday, February 2, 2009, 3:19 AM > Hi Bernd and Rob, > > That would be my first guess too Bernd. But the crust has > me stumped. I > can't work out if it's a weathering effect or > different material underneath. > It does look similar to eucritic fusion crust even down to > the cracking > though. Weird! > > Cheers, > > Jeff > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 7:02 AM > Subject: [meteorite-list] Green spot in chondrite > > > > Hello Rob and List, > > > > > http://home.planet.nl/~rlenssen/green_spot_in_chondrite.jpg > > > > "Can anybody explain to me what I am seeing > here?" > > > > This may be a magnesium-rich orthopyroxene crystal > => hypersthene > > (Mg,Fe)SiO3 > > > > What do others think? > > > > Best, > > > > Bernd > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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 ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
