Hello Michael and List- It was indeed NWA 096. The smell was also likened to bubble-gum. The two slices I have both still retain some of that scent. It has a very interesting matrix with large orange clasts.
Cheers, Bob Holmes On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 5:23 PM, michael cottingham<[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > In the early days when Mike Farmer and I where bringing over the very first > batches of NWA's, I believe it was NWA 96? or NWA 90 something, somewhere > around that number, we had one that upon cutting smelled like "Cotton Candy" > It baffled everyone as to what the smell was or where it came from. It was > distinct though and no doubt it came from within the meteorite. Some of you > know which one I am talking about. The smell of that meteorite made me > think of the county fairs I have been to! Since then I have come across many > chondrites both carbonaceous and ordinary that have had distinct > smells-smells like charcoal, gunpowder, bubble gum or cotton candy, acid > like smells, paint smells, and other smells. A strange event and very hard > to pin point down to the cause... > > Best Wishes > > Michael Cottingham > http://stores.ebay.com/voyage-botanica-natural-history > > > > > On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Greg Catterton wrote: > >> >> Perhaps its the first "Urineite"... >> I have had a few that had a rotten egg like smell, but never urine. >> >> Greg C. >> >> --- On Sat, 6/20/09, Meteorites USA <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> From: Meteorites USA <[email protected]> >>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Stinky Meteorite >>> To: "[email protected]" >>> <[email protected]> >>> Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 7:49 PM >>> Hi List, >>> >>> Don't laugh! This is weird... >>> >>> While slicing some unclassified chondrite meteorites I >>> noticed one meteorite that was particularly odoriferous. I >>> don't really want to say "what" this piece smells like as I >>> don't know if it's appropriate list content. Let's just say >>> that dogs lift their leg to fire hydrants, and maybe, >>> sometime in the past, this stone just happened to be in the >>> wrong place at the wrong time. >>> >>> The smell was super intense while cutting. At first I >>> didn't know where it was coming from, then when I finished >>> the cut, I actually smelled the stone to see if that's where >>> the odor was originating. Sure enough! Yuck! >>> >>> I've cleaned the stone throughly. No amount of cleaning >>> will remove the smell. It's definitely coming from within >>> the meteorite itself. >>> >>> Has anyone else had any of their NWA stone meteorites that >>> smell really bad? >>> >>> -- Regards, >>> Eric Wichman >>> Meteorites USA >>> http://www.meteoritesusa.com >>> 904-236-5394 >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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 > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
