Re: [meteorite-list] Near pure Olivine Meteorite

Hi Jim, Nature abhors pure anything. Chassignites are martian dunites. Carl * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172

Re: [meteorite-list] Question about the chemistry of the Martian atmosphere and Martian meteorites

is still not clear and Earth contamination is always a factor. Also, it is possible that some of the atmospheric gases were implanted at the time of impact that launched the material off Mars (i.e. recent). Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator

[meteorite-list] Fwd: Results of ANSMET Nomad Robotic Meteorite RecoveryEffort?

From: Carl Agee a...@unm.edu Date: Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Results of ANSMET Nomad Robotic Meteorite RecoveryEffort? To: Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com Mike, From what I recall of this project the robot was not very good at spotting

Re: [meteorite-list] Results of ANSMET Nomad Robotic Meteorite RecoveryEffort?

there is something over there. So my advice is forget about robots and dogs for spotting meteorites -- unless, in the case of dogs, the meteorites have an anomalous odor -- which possibly fresh falls do!! Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute

Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite-list] List is getting torpid

-- and it can feel silent. Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http

Re: [meteorite-list] [AD]: NWA 8276 - the NOT SO ordinary chondrite L3.00/W1 (and the start of an interesting discussion?)

Probably none of my business, but I would have some thin sections made. We did that for NWA 7731 for research and they are spectacular. The porphyritic chondrules -- dazzling and crystal clear! Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute

Re: [meteorite-list] [AD]: NWA 8276 - the NOT SO ordinary chondrite L3.00/W1 (and the start of an interesting discussion?)

. It is the second L3.00 and is possibly paired to NWA 7731. NWA 8276 features a rich, black crust and a yellowish matrix densely packed with chondrules. Extensive analysis by Dr. Carl Agee and Karen Ziegler support the 3.00 classification - a classification that indicates no heat or aqueous alteration

Re: [meteorite-list] [AD]: NWA 8276 - the NOT SO ordinary chondrite L3.00/W1 (and the start of an interesting discussion?)

7731 L3.00 W1? - John From: cb.a...@gmail.com [mailto:cb.a...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Carl Agee Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 6:23 PM To: Mendy Ouzillou Cc: kashuba; Adam Bates; Met-List Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] [AD]: NWA 8276 - the NOT SO ordinary chondrite L3.00/W1

Re: [meteorite-list] Why isn't Mreira classified as a Fall?

competing hunters? No such thing as too much documentation. Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505

Re: [meteorite-list] Ungrouped Achondrite Prices (NWA 7325 and others)

a CK-chondrite precursor -- in other words, take a CK parent body, igneously melt it, and the product is achondrite-ung NWA 8186. Hey, who said the list was boring? Mike, great discussion topic! Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute

Re: [meteorite-list] Ungrouped Achondrite Prices (NWA 7325 andothers)

-1567 phone: 310-825-3202 e-mail: aeru...@ucla.edu website: http://cosmochemists.igpp.ucla.edu/Rubin.html - Original Message - From: Carl Agee a...@unm.edu To: Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com Cc: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, March

Re: [meteorite-list] Photos of Dr. Laurence Garvie and Myself teaching meteorite basics.

Ruben, Those who cannot see it may not be FB friends with you. You can set permissions for everyone. Carl * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM

Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Caddo County, OK Killer IAB Silicated Iron

Hi Steve, I was looking into IAB's recently and they are actually closely linked to winonaites as their oxygen isotopes are identical. Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050

Re: [meteorite-list] is it a meteorite

How do you know that ureilites, aubrites, acapulcoites and the many achondrite-ung are NOT exploded bits of parent planets destroyed by alien warfare in our solar system a long time ago? In which case they would not be meteorites. Carl * Carl B. Agee Director

Re: [meteorite-list] HUGE Meteor Sighting in Cottonwood AZ

If this dropped stones on New Mexico, you know where to bring them! Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA May Put Greenhouse on Mars in 2021

NASA's Planetary Protection Officer will have to approve it! -Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax

Re: [meteorite-list] Prices for SouthWest Dry Lake Finds??? Old Women Meteorite

in California for tourists to appreciate. Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email

Re: [meteorite-list] Prices for SouthWest Dry Lake Finds??? Old Women Meteorite

of money on JPL's remote sensing probes and archiving the data from missions but somehow the non-Antarctic samples in our labs and university museums are not as special to them -- and as far as I know they are from the same solar system :) :) Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee

Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - Lunars, Martian, HED's, Achondrites

for classification. Happy New Year, keep the good stuff coming! Carl Agee Editor, Meteoritical Bulletin * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131

Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update: Sahara 00293

Mike and All: Even poor old L6's can have their 15 minutes of fame! This one has high pressure minerals: dark blue ringwoodite and green wadsleyite. How cool (or should I say hot and shocked?) is that? Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute

Re: [meteorite-list] Re-2: Met Bulletin Update: Sahara 00293

I think we have to save the name Shocking Blue for the first meteorite from Venus-- if one is ever discovered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPEhQugz-Ew Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary

Re: [meteorite-list] Middle school students lobbying Kansas lawmakers to declare official state rock

://meteoritefalls.com Original Message Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Middle school students lobbying Kansas lawmakers to declare official state rock From: Carl Agee a...@unm.edu Date: Wed, January 28, 2015 2:55 pm To: Shawn Alan shawna...@meteoritefalls.com Cc: Michael Farmer

Re: [meteorite-list] Middle school students lobbying Kansas lawmakers to declare official state rock

I count 225 New Mexico meteorites in the MetBull. That is 0.00185 meteorites per square mile. If Kansas has 143 meteorites, then that is 0.00174 meteorites per square mile. I think that puts the Land of Enchantment as the #1 meteorite state :) :) * Carl B.

Re: [meteorite-list] Question about Norites - Lunar and Diogenite

Hi Mike: Norite is a generic petrologic term for an igneous mafic rock that has primarily orthopyroxene + plagioclase and little or no clinopyroxene. Norites occur on Earth, the Moon, and the HED parent body (as you call Vestan). HED norites are in fact a type of diogenite. Geochemically there is

Re: [meteorite-list] Important Announcement form the Nomenclature Committee

Mriera is being re-voted in light of the new data from Albert Jambon. * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax:

Re: [meteorite-list] Important Announcement form the Nomenclature Committee

://pinterest.com/galacticstone - On 2/13/15, Carl Agee via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/MetBullNews.php?id=3 * Carl B. Agee Director

[meteorite-list] Fwd: Important Announcement form the Nomenclature Committee

-- Forwarded message -- From: Carl Agee a...@unm.edu Date: Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Important Announcement form the Nomenclature Committee To: Matt Morgan m...@mhmeteorites.com Cc: Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com, Galactic Stone

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 8159 in Tucson

://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/ On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Hi Ann, I am in midst of preparing a full paper on NWA 8159 for peer-review. In the meantime, here are some conference abstracts that have more info than the MetBull entry: http

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 8159 in Tucson

Hi Ann, I am in midst of preparing a full paper on NWA 8159 for peer-review. In the meantime, here are some conference abstracts that have more info than the MetBull entry: http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2014/pdf/2036.pdf http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2014/pdf/5397.pdf It is a

[meteorite-list] Important Announcement form the Nomenclature Committee

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/MetBullNews.php?id=3 * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577

Re: [meteorite-list] Happy birthday to the Giants

And Norton is still the world's largest achondrite. A miracle that it stayed together in the 1 ton mass, most of the aubrite is very friable, except the nice sized enstatite crystals thoughout. They just don't make falls like the used to! Carl Agee * Carl B

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Supply and Demand

now, the prices will go back up and they will continue to be seen as among the very rarest meteorite types. Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Supply and Demand

Here is another measure of current meteorite supply. Angrites seem to be among the most scarce. -Carl Agee MetBull 103 2174 Ordinary chondrites 130 HED achondrites 113 Carbonaceous chondrites 41 Ureilites 27 Lunar meteorites 24 Enstatite chondrites 21 Iron meteorites 15 Primitive

Re: [meteorite-list] Lunar meteorites selling for peanuts

recent big TKW finds of lunars. Who knows! Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577

Re: [meteorite-list] Lunar meteorites selling for peanuts

/ On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Supply and demand could be part of the story for lunars, maybe not for martians. Here are the numbers for just new NWA lunars since 2010: 2010: 11 2011: 6 2012: 4 2013: 13 2014: 25 Here is the same time frame for NWA

Re: [meteorite-list] UNM Meteorite Museum re-opening

e an amazing job at UNM. You inspire so many of us with > your knowledge and enthusiasm for meteoritics. > > Keep it up! > > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Carl Agee via Meteorite-list > <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: >> http://news.unm.edu/news/unm-s

[meteorite-list] UNM Meteorite Museum re-opening

http://news.unm.edu/news/unm-s-meteorite-museum-reopens-with-futuristic-design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBiM4f9Eajs * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico

Re: [meteorite-list] Kalahari Lunars

According to the MetBull there are 20 gram samples and thin sections of both 008 and 009 at Universität Münster, Münster, Germany. There has been science done on Kalahari 008 and 009. Aside from microprobe, they have radiometric ages, oxygen isotopes, as well as cosmic ray exposure. As Randy

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 5000 Goes Ivy League - NEW Display at Yale!

There are some abstracts on Kalahari 008 and 009. Randy Korotev and the Lunar Meteorite Compendium show some data. http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/stones/kalahari008.htm http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/lmc/M5%20Kalahari.pdf Carl * Carl B. Agee

Re: [meteorite-list] Lake Eyre meteorite 'Crown property', researchers required to hand findings over

Not to bore everyone, but I'll repost thisexcerpt from Lincoln LaPaz's (founder of IOM) "Space Nomads: Meteorites in Sky, Field, and Laboratory". It is as true today as it was when the IOM was founded in 1944! Also relevant to this discussion I believe... "Meteorite hunting, unlike pure

Re: [meteorite-list] Confessions of a Meteorite Hunter

FYI - Nina Lanza is an alumna of IOM/UNM, receiving her Ph.D. in 2011. * Carl B. Agee President, Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES) Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03

Re: [meteorite-list] Article : 21st Century Meteorite Falls, Part Two

Always an interesting topic! A couple of things come to mind: Morocco has 8 falls in the 21st century, which you suggest has to do with the meteorite-savvy population and desert terrain. California has a very similar area and population density -- also a west facing coast line, a fair amount of

Re: [meteorite-list] Testing meteoric gemstones

Distinguishing between terrestrial olivine and pallasite olivine probably isn't quick and easy. Electron microprobe would show the difference in the Fe/Mn which is diagnostic. I've never used one, but a handheld XRF might be able to do this too. If you don't mind vaporizing the stone with a laser

Re: [meteorite-list] RES: Quartz on meteorites

opportunity to see mottled with quartz grains (SiO2) > and it is a meteorite analyzed as H6 chondrite by Prof. Carl Agee > > Physical characteristics: TKW: 571 g. Dark brown exterior, saw cut reveals > fine grained oxidized brown interior with fine weathering veins. > > Petrograp

Re: [meteorite-list] Quartz on meteorites

Hi Alan, Perhaps you missed our talks at MetSoc: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2017/pdf/6129.pdf https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2017/pdf/6268.pdf NWA 9 has more than 20% silica polymorphs (mix of tridymite and cristobalite). Best regards, Carl

Re: [meteorite-list] interstellar meteorite anyone?

It is regrettable that Earthlings are not technologically advanced enough to intercept and sample interstellar objects like `Oumuamua which entered our solar system on a hyperbolic orbit and is now gone forever. What a missed opportunity! Carl * Carl B. Agee

[meteorite-list] Institute of Meteoritics celebrates 75th anniversary

at the reception and symposium. For additional information, or to be added to the IOM mailing list, please email: i...@unm.edu. Thank you! Sincerely, Dr. Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee President, Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange Meteorites Found Across Earth Revealed as Fragments of The Same Baby Planet

The lead photo is of our Techado IIE which they measured in this study. I don't know about Mont Dieu, Wasson classified it as a IIE, but it was changed in 2006, no explanation for the reclassification given in the MetBull. * Carl B. Agee President, Consortium

Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update : 51 new approvals, including many old early-NWA's, rare iron IIF, and more.

They are all paired with NWA 13250. * Carl B. Agee President, Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES) Director, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoritical Bulletin Main Mass photos

I have started to add photos and sometimes graphs or figures for exceptional samples to MetBull classifications. I agree that photos of garden variety equilibrated OCs might not be that interesting, but sometimes they are. For me it is no extra work to post photos since I always have microprobe

[meteorite-list] Regarding Pakepake 005 (Lunar Fragmental Breccia)

I classified this 44 gram meteorite and it is still in my possession; 9 grams of it is now in the IOM repository and the remaining mass of 35 grams will be shipped back to the owner. If you look at the classification in the MetBull you will see that I determined it to be a lunar fragmental breccia

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