Re: [meteorite-list] More on Chladnite (Was: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - August 24, 2010) - Part 2

And because it would be unfair, to have lost that great name this way, We have since 1994 the mineral: Chladniite http://webmineral.com/data/Chladniite.shtml Best! -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] More on Chladnite (Was: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - August 24, 2010) - Part 2

BURKE J.G. (1986) Cosmic Debris, Meteorites in History, Chapter 4, p. 121: Chladnite: Again, it was an observation by Charles U. Shepard that paved the way toward the identification of the pyroxenes. In 1846 he described a mineral which, he wrote, is a ter-silicate of magnesia...[and] forms more