Hi Richard et al Do you want to rejoice in the new chondrite MS-CH?
Here you go: http://www.haberer-meteorite.de/english/Asteroid%202008%20tc3/MS-CH.html Click on the images and enjoy! I was lucky enough to get one of those. Cheers Martin -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Richard Kowalski" <[email protected]> Gesendet: 15.02.2011 20:31:20 An: "Shawn Alan" <[email protected]> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] ... THERE IS A NEW CHONDRITE TYPE.... >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 > > > >______________________________________________ >Visit the Archives at >http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >Meteorite-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
