Rats; 1986 is outside the window for retrieving archived weather radar data. I'd LOVE to see what an iron meteorite fall "looks like" on radar!
Congrats on a magnificent new meteorite! Cheers, MDF On 5/26/09 4:27 PM, "Ruben Garcia" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Wow Greg, > That's a cool meteorite!! I wish I'd have found it..... > Ruben Garcia > Phoenix, Arizona > My Website: http://www.Mr-Meteorite.Net > My Articles: http://www.meteorite.com/blog/ > My Videos: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=meteorfright=v > <http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=meteorfright&p=v> > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Greg Hupe <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:18:06 PM > Subject: [meteorite-list] NEW Ocate, NM Iron Classification & Specimens - AD > > Dear List Members, > > I would like to announce a newly-approved iron meteorite found in New Mexico > in 1986 and has just been approved. It is a IAB-MG (Main Group), coarse > ochtahedrite and is named "Ocate" after the nearest town to where it was > found. It will be in the online database soon and will be published in MB96 > (Sept, issue MaPS). It wasn't until 2008 that they finder approached me with > the single 6.4kg stone that the classification process began. I went to the > find site last fall with the person who found it to take GPS coordinates, > photograph the area and to hunt for more if there were any to be found. We > didn't have much time to hunt at that time so we did not find any others. > > Here are a couple of links to give you an idea of how nice Ocate is (see all > available specimens below classification below). This was cut and prepared by > one of the best meteorite craftsman in the business! > > Polished and etched face of a 314g complete slice: > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/dsc00002.jpg > Ocate, New Mexico sign: > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/OcateSign.jpg > The find site of the 6.4kg Ocate iron: > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/findsite.jpg > > Getting to the find site is treacherous and a 4-wheel drive vehicle with high > clearance is required! It took us about three hours after leaving the paved > road to get to the site up the mountain on a road that was more like a > crater-ridden trail with large boulders in most places and swampy mud in > others. To successfully hunt the site would require camping for a week, there > is no way to drive up and down the mountain each day and get enough hunting > hours in to make it worthwhile. There are also lots of elk hunters during > hunting season so anyone who wants to give it a go, be careful! > > Submitted and approved classification for "Ocate": > Ocate 36° 17.72' N, 105° 2.90' W > > Mora County, New Mexico > > Find: 1986 > > Iron (IAB-MG), coarse octahedrite > > > > History: This single 6.4kg mass was found by a local New Mexico hunter in > 1986. Knowing it was different from the surrounding rocks and had an odd > appearance (the face of a bear), the hunter took it home and set it aside with > an odd assortment of 'collectibles' while hunting and mountaineering over > decades in the New Mexico area. The owner contacted G. Hupe in May 2008 for > verification of the find, which was confirmed by study of the type sample at > the University of Alberta. > > Physical characteristics: A single stone weighing 6402 grams with virtually > no apparent fusion crust, yet also lacking progressed terrestrial alteration, > which contributes towards its dark brown metallic appearance with well defined > regmaglypts. > > Petrography: (C. Herd, N. Bruemmer, UAb) A 5 x 7 cm polished and etched slab > reveals Widmanstätten pattern with an average bandwidth of 1.4 ± 0.2 mm, few > areas of plessite, and numerous inclusions. A 1 cm ellipsoidal graphite > nodule and several smaller inclusions of graphite, troilite and schreibersite > are associated with polygonal kamacite on one portion of the slab. Smaller, > mm-scale elongate inclusions of troilite are oriented parallel to kamacite > lamellae where the Widmanstätten is better developed. Terrestrial oxides > decorate fractures within a few mm of the exterior surface. > > Geochemistry: Bulk Composition: INAA data (J. Duke, UAb): Ni = 6.99 ± 0.05 > wt%, Co = 0.466 ± 0.004 wt%, Ga = 71.9 ± 0.3 ?g/g, Ge = 271 ± 6 ?g/g, Ir = > 2.25 ± 0.04 ?g/g, Au = 1.60 ± 0.03 ?g/g, As = 15.2 ± 0.3 ?g/g, Cu = 119 ± 11 > ?g/g, W = 0.87 ± 0.08 ?g/g, Re = 0.22 ± 0.02 ?g/g (uncertainties 1s, 68% > confidence level). > > Classification: Iron meteorite, IAB main group, coarse octahedrite, minimal > shock, minimal weathering. > > Type specimens: 97.58 g slab and a 3.2 g interior piece, UAb, main mass, G. > Hupe. > > > > > I have only 12 specimens out of 15 that are available, here is the list which > also shows the thickness of each piece: > > Ocate, New Mexico IAB-MG iron meteorite > 910g end cut > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/nm910a.jpg > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/nm910b.jpg > > 322.6g cs 4mm thick > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/dsc00001.jpg > > 314g cs 4mm > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/dsc00002.jpg > > 211.6g cs 3.5mm > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/dsc00003.jpg > > 208.2g cs 4mm > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/dsc00004.jpg > > 191g cs 4mm > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/dsc00005.jpg > > 168.6g cs 2.5mm > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/dsc00006.jpg > > 163.8g cs 2.5mm > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/dsc00007.jpg > > 162.9g ps 6.5mm > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/dsc00008.jpg > > 162.8g cs 3.5mm > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/dsc00009.jpg > > 130g ps 5-7mm > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/dsc00010.jpg > > 4.5g ps (unpolished) 5mm > http://www.lunarrock.com/ocate/specimens/dsc00011.jpg > cs - complete slice > ps - part slice > > I am asking just $4.00/g plus shipping, so if you are interested, please > contact me Off-List. Thank you! > > In addition to these beautiful Ocate specimens, I have another batch of eBay > auctions ending tomorrow (Wednesday, May 27th). Many are still at just 99 > cents, so more excellent deals will be had this week by bidding with me, > NaturesVault. Click here for my current eBay auctions: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault > > Best regards, > Greg > > ==================== > Greg Hupe > The Hupe Collection > NaturesVault (eBay) > [email protected] > www.LunarRock.com > IMCA 3163 > ==================== > Click here for my current eBay auctions: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault > > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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
