Dear List,
I just want to express my views on this subject and
then tend to more pressing issues.
It is interesting to note that similar arguments were
presented when discussing SNCs. A lot of groups had a
hard time believing that these series of rocks
actually came from Mars. Now, you would be
Dear List Members,
Yesterday I announced my new NomCom Approved Angrite which has a different
lithology than the other known angrites. It is NWA 4590 Tamassint and is a
Plutonic Angrite. For those who do not want to go to eBay to look up the
complete information, here is the approved
Greg,
In light of recent comments about new rocks getting
scant discussion, I will make some input on this one.
I have to spend some time to pore/paw? over the Lunar
and Planetary Science stuff in detail but it it seems
interesting at a glance through. The great diversity
of minerals in this
Hello Rob and List,
I'd like to chime in on this angrite subject, one I find very exciting
as attested to by my continued purchases of different angrite specimens.
I have been following the ongoing reasoned discussions by some very
smart investigators about a possible angrite-Mercury
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEW Plutonic Angrite - NWA 4590 Tamassint
Greg,
In light of recent comments about new rocks getting
scant discussion, I will make some input on this one.
I have to spend some time to pore/paw? over the Lunar
and Planetary Science stuff in detail but it it seems
Amazing stuff Sterling. I'm thinking this makes
Angrites less likely to come from Mercury but does
anyone have a CRE of Angrites? I just had it in my
mind that it was only a few million to a few hundred
million years which I think puts another nail in the
coffin.
If they're 4000MYr or so then
Hello Sterling and hopeful Hermean collectors,
The angrites have FeO contents in the general range of ~25 wt%, so if
they are from Mercury this does not conform to your inverse iron core
ordering, unless the core of Mercury was not fully differentiated before
the impact-related dissemination
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