The end cut of a stone or the cut off piece in thin section making. Ted
On 3/28/11 1:54 PM, "Michael Gilmer" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have seen several references to "polished butts" in the Met > Bulletin. For example, from this recent entry (NWA 6580) approved > yesterday - > > "Type specimens available at Cascadia include 1 piece originally 20.0 > g, from which one polished thin section and one polished butt were > made. Thompson holds the main mass." > > I did the usual Google Search ("polished butt") to find out what this > was, and you don't want to know what the results of that search were. > Let's just say, that is has nothing to do with meteorites or thin > sections. > > So I have to ask the List - what is a polished butt? > > Best regards, > > MikeG ______________________________________________ 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
