Hi List...something to add....recently I recieved my best-yet Camel Donga in
the mail, "appropriately" packaged from down under, although the inner
wrapping was a generous coil of TP (toilet paper, chemically scented, no
less)... Alas! As a mychophile, naturally I smell every new specimen
ungo to bless my forays, the small a key character to published and
described species. I didn't expect the pungent odor of "pretty-stuff" to
envelop my new complete and awesome eucrite, so I allowed it to sit under
the scope over-night, in hopes of no sugar-plums dancing around in the
morning.
Fortunately, no residudal smell, that I could detect, twelve hours later;
yet/and thanks to that shiney crust I hope no terestrial crap happened to
it.....but it does re-inforce the need for awareness on shipping and
packaging.
What are we wrapping our specimens in????
Richard M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Meteorites USA" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stinky meteorites
Baby powder meteorite, camel pee meteorite? I wonder where those came
from? They sound familiar. ;)
Baby powder, good...
Camel pee, bad...
;)
Eric
On 7/24/2010 11:51 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I have an end cut of an uNWA chondrite which smelled like urine when
cut.<<
It might have been on a camel trail?
GeoZay
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