Hi Shawn,
thanks for pointing this out.
I've only had a few minutes to skim through the special edition on Almahata
Sitta but I am just finishing the process of printing out all of the articles
and papers on these meteorites.
AS certainly is an interesting fall. Besides the new type of chondritic
material, that fall contained H5, L4, EH3, EH4/5, EH5, EH6, EL3/4, EL5/6 & EL6
material along with the bulk ureilitic mass.
For those who haven't gotten a chance to see the online issue, a few more of
the titles of the papers in the special edition:
"Asteroid 2008 TC3—Almahata Sitta: A spectacular breccia containing many
different ureilitic and chondritic lithologies"
"Extraterrestrial amino acids in the Almahata Sitta meteorite"
"Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in asteroid 2008 TC3 Dispersion of organic
compounds inside asteroids"
I'm looking forward to when I can find a few hours to hunker down and start
pouring through all of the papers. I have to chuckle a bit when I think back to
early 2009 when there were a few murmurs about some researchers how were happy
about the event, but not overly pleased that AS was an ureilite. They would
have preferred an OCs instead of a rare type. These grumbles faded pretty
quickly.
As for the original thread, someone with the means to do so could build an
entire type set of AS all by itself.
Cheers
--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
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