Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 261, Issue 15

2024-03-29 Thread Jason Utas via Meteorite-list
Hello Everyone, Sorry for the late reply - it's spring break, and the rocks don't find themselves. It's hard to disagree with *common sense*. Unfortunately, Mark has already made at least a few pretty bad *common sense* pairing mistakes that I'm pretty sure have put misrepresented material into

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 261, Issue 15

2024-03-18 Thread Jason Utas via Meteorite-list
Hello Jason, As long as material is described accurately, I don't care what you do. I only butted in here because it annoyed me to see you attacking a Moroccan seller who is probably selling accurately paired material, while you’re openly doing the same thing with other meteorites. Glass house

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 261, Issue 15

2024-03-16 Thread Jason Utas via Meteorite-list
Hello Jason, To be consistent, you should remove the HaH 346 and NWA 869 specimens you have listed for sale on your website. Those classifications were submitted by other dealers; your stones are unclassified individuals from DCAs with no evidence of their find locations, etc. On your "featured"

Re: [meteorite-list] Another in the curious tektite series

2023-03-13 Thread jason utas via Meteorite-list
Those are skin splits, not contacts. Its surface had cooled to form a skin, interior was still molten / plastic. See Nininger & Huss (1967): https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.157.3784.61 http://www.tektites.co.uk/stretch.html On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 9:19 AM Thomas Harris iMac

Re: [meteorite-list] Modern Burnishing

2020-08-15 Thread Jason Utas via Meteorite-list
The photo of Haig shows concave depressions, not bulbous lumps. It’s not good photo perspective. The closest visual match to this stone would be something like Patos de Minas (the octahedrite), but comparing a relatively fresh desert stone with fusion crust — to a fissured, decomposing iron from

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2018-06-27 Thread Jason Utas via Meteorite-list
pedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting Jason On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 7:30 PM, Adam Hupe via Meteorite-list wrote: > Spoken by a true pioneer in self-pairing and piggy-backing, > > Anybody for any self-paired and piggy-backed Black Beauty? > > > > > On 6/25/2018 1:40 AM, Jason Utas via

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2018-06-25 Thread Jason Utas via Meteorite-list
Please note that the slice pictured is NWA 3200, not NWA 860. Someone made a mistake and “self-paired” two completely different iron meteorites. Jason On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 1:00 AM Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list < meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: > Today's Meteorite Picture of the

Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: Lots of Gold and Meteorites on Heritage Auctions

2017-11-04 Thread Jason Utas via Meteorite-list
We've had this discussion before, Adam. You're gaslighting. The pairing rules are very clear and can be read in section 4.2 (a) and (b) of this link: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/docs/nc-guidelines.pdf Key statements: 1) "a single (collective) name may be given in cases where fragments fit

Re: [meteorite-list] From the dailybruin.com - Couple loans unexpected find to UCLA Meteorite Gallery

2016-06-27 Thread Jason Utas via Meteorite-list
Some additional photos: (1) http://meteoritegallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/DSCN8994.jpg (2) http://meteoritegallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/DSCN8992.jpg (3) http://meteoritegallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/DSCN8991.jpg (4)