Hi Ruben, Greg, and a big hello to Dean,
Ruben you almost did get it (You didn't see us, but we heard you :-),
though we never saw you. You were there just a couple of days before
Greg flew in. The locals with the guy from Mora told me about the iron,
though I wasn't very interested. The find was becoming common knowledge
among the Glorieta local hunters. There were rumors that a second and
possibly third piece had been found. It would be interesting to know
the status of that, whether the rumors were of a meteorite and if so,
the same one.
I happened to call Greg after I saw them and mentioned I said hello to
them. A few days later, I was hunting when the guy from Mora showed up
a second time sort of under a gag order. A guy from Florida with deep
pockets was coming and they had to take him to the place of the find. I
couldn't imaging who that might be:) Then, coincidentally, later that
day they came back and I ran into Greg who was all smiles in the woods
at Glorieta. Greg was a bit surprised when I asked him about the iron.
Then they ran off to Ocate. I had a wimpy case of being
Glorieta-whipped, and after one adventure too many certainly had lost
my silver pick (not to mention my iron digger where I chatted with
Greg, which I found again on a subsequent trip). I would have said "Dr.
Livingstone...." but this pattern is getting al too predictable these
da
ys... :-)
He who has the gold makes the rules, so, congratulations for doing all
the work to Greg Hupe! We'll get the next one! There's always a next
one, that's what's so exciting about this...
Best wishes,
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Miera <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Sent: Tue, 26 May 2009 10:51 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEW Ocate, NM Iron Classification &
Specimens - AD
Hello Greg, Congrats On your awesome N.M. iron meteorite! Shes a beaut!
I actually know the guy who found your N.M. Iron meteorite. The stories
he
has told me behind this find are very interesting to say the least. In
fact we
spoke again of this fall the last time we hunted together. There have
been
quite a few falls here in N.M. worthy of spending some serious
adventure time on
for sure!! Again congrats to you!
Dean
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 18:18:06 -0400
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 published20
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. There20are 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 μg/g, Ge = 271 ± 6 μg/g,
Ir =
2.25 ± 0.04 μg/g, Au = 1.60 ± 0.03 μg/g, As = 15.2 ± 0.3 μg/g, Cu =
119 ± 11
μg/g, W = 0.87 ± 0.08 μg/g, Re = 0.22 ± 0.02 μg/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
0A>
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
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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
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