Hi All, It seems that the ancient geocities site I posted my pics to has either crashed or reached its limit.
I posted the pics again in box.net. This should be more reliable. http://www.box.net/shared/4r1330eocd http://www.box.net/shared/o6b03dtrdb http://www.box.net/shared/roec5zuyi2 Best, Martin On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Dark Matter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Once again, I found myself wandering the Smithsonian meteorite display > in Washington DC this past weekend. This time, however, I spent less > time studying the sexy stones and irons, and instead concentrated on > the more common ones that I usually overlook. > > One in particular caught my attention. > > On display is a 435kg individual of Canyon Diablo. At first, I started > on a quest to answer the question about if CD contains thumbprints or > not. As I was carefully studying the surface, I noticed what I can > only describe as swarms of micro craters. > > I tried to come up with alternate hypotheses such as mechanical > disassembly like pounding on it with a hammer and chisel, but no go. > They have the splashforms of craters just like those commonly found on > Sikhote-Alin individuals. Here's a link to a .pdf article about the > S-A impact craters: > > http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/LPSC98/pdf/1839.pdf > > > Linked are some pics of what I'm talking about. > > http://www.geocities.com/planetwhy/CD1.JPG > > http://www.geocities.com/planetwhy/CD2.JPG > > http://www.geocities.com/planetwhy/CD3.JPG > > Any thoughts? > > -Martin > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
