Yes, Graham, it does not load up. Click instead on " from 19 December 2016" and
you can see the original photo! Cheers, Bernd (in Germany)
> Graham Ensor via Meteorite-list hat
> am 19.12.2020 11:56 geschrieben:
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>
> Anyone else finding that the picture of the day does not load up?
Hi Chris,
Same here, ...happened just a few minutes ago :-(
Best Christmas wishes,
Bernd (in Germany)
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Bernd (in Germany at 00.35 local time ;-)
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16:20 hrs, when a brilliant fireball swept across southern England from a south
-southwesterly
Hello Jason, Count, Werner + Sandra, and List,
Attached Jason, Count, Werner + Sandra will find a color version of the postcard
I sent Jeff Kuyken some years ago. Another picture that I took several years ago
shows some excellent detail of the spongelike structure that Jason mentions
in his
post
Chris wrote:
If memory serves Sky Telescope (70's or 80's) had an
article with color photos of a a large specimen 'in situ'.
Hi Chris and List,
Your memory does serve right...well, almost. There was indeed an article
in S T, but that was in the February 1967 issue with the largest mass
(ca.
Mike wrote:
Thanks very much it seems most of the time these things have a
pleasant ending. You have all given me me a little more hope.
Hello Mike and List,
Mailing and waiting for packages can be an unnerving project around Christmas
time. Your lost shipment reminds me of my NWA 1909 and my
Gary wrote:
Yup, they asked me what, did you folks have a
meeting or something?. Seven orders to date.
Hmmm, ... but they should get their records straight ;-)
The original meteorite was a *Stony Iron (class unknown)* and so has a
density somewhere in between a solid lump of rock and a *lump
Really *Great* shot !!!
Breathtaking!
Beautiful!
Thanks for sharing, Mike!
Bernd
.. getting ready for snow-shoveling tomorrowmorning
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Sky Telescope, July 1981, p. 86: April's Intense Auroral Display
On April 10th, at about 16:55 Universal time, the Sun spewed a solar flare
from a region near the center of' its disk. It was a modest flare by solar
standards, but the high-energy electrons and protons it sent
Linton wrote: Thanks for posting that, Bernd.
My pleasure, Linton!
Linton also wrote: large, shifting areas of pink and purplish colors, ...
Sky Telescope, July 1981, p. 87: ... a red glow ...
Sky Telescope, July 1981, p. 89: ... recorded the aurora's reddening ...
Sky Telescope, July
Good morning Listees and Listoids,
Last night Linton also wrote:
There were large, shifting areas of pink and purplish colors,
rather than the green which is apparently more common.
Sky Telescope, July 1981, p. 86:
Auroras above 240 km (150 miles) are mainly red from light
given off by oxygen
Hello Chris, Elton and List,
A decreasing silica content seems to correlate with a gradual
change of color from yellow over green towards brown:
LDG - almost pure silica = 98% - yellowish or pale green
Moldavites = 78-85% - (light) bottle green
Average value of 25 bediasites = 71.89-81.31 -
Sterling wrote:
while I typed this and checked the figures,
the question was answered already...
.. nevertheless an *excellent* post and it added valuable
information that had not been addressed yet (two-colored
moldavites, for example)!
Thank you, Sterling, for posting it!
Bernd
Hello Steve and List,
What is a muong nong tektite ... What do
they look like and what is the composition?
Muong Nong-type tektite characteristics:
- they are relatively large and blocky
- they are layered
- they do not display an aerodynamic shape
- they are more internally heterogeneous in
Hi Bob and List,
Then there are the chondrites that get tears
in their eyes (bleed). Dhofar 10 comes to mind.
.. Oh well, yes! My Dhofar 10 endcut that I purchased in 2001
kept bleeding / oozing for years until it finally surrendered about
two years ago. No more chloride tears left! It's been
Hello Marco, Regine, and List,
Marco kindly wrote:
There is a photograph of the boy in the MAPS article on Mbale.
Unfortunately, only a bw photo. A color photo can be found here:
C. Smith, S. Russell, G. Benedix (2009) Meteorites
(Firefly Books, NHM, London, p. 38)
Best pre-Xmas wishes
from
Regine inquired:
Thanks Marco Bernd, is it the portrait on the left
you're talking about or is there another image?
http://www.xs4all.nl/~dmsweb/meteorites/mbale/mbale.html
Yep, the one on the left!
Cheers,
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Hello List,
Yesterday my young German fellow meteorite collector David G. offered nine
slices
of his very fresh, carbonaceous chondrite NWA 6155. It was classified by Tony
Irving
as a CK4 with a TKW of only (!) 53 grams.
Those of you who have already seen the pictures David has taken of this
AWESOME. I could not think of a nicer person
to get an honor such as this, congrats Dorothy!
Sincere congratulations, Dorothy!
An honor well deserved!!!
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I prayed for Jesus to send me an ice meteorite,
because I knew it would be quite valuable,...
= I p r a y e d
= v a l u a b le
! ! !
If Snyder's claim is accurate, [he] ... will be catapulted to worldwide fame
.. or right into Hell ;-)
No further comments from me on this thread!
Bernd
Sorry, test # 3, only!
I can hear you loud and clear!
Welcome back!
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Hello All,
Again forwarding something ... this time from Herbert Raab:
Zelimir Gabelica wrote:
Are there data reporting
and that the *hand had kept* that smell for two days.
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Good morning Listees, Listoids, Listers,
Here's a copy of something I posted many years ago (maybe 2004).
Cheers,
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Meteorites - warm or hot to the touch?
01) The Binningup meteorite was recovered within a few minutes
of the
Patrick wrote:
Images from a trip many years ago to Northern
Territory, Australia's Henbury meteor craters:
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/HMCAPR88.HTML
Hello Patrick,
Beautiful shots but photo #9 is the one I like best because when
I look at it, I feel the urge to crawl on all fours
Larry wrote:
I wish I could find the old Lost City fall picture of the meteorite
in snow. I do not remember seeing any melted snow around it, but it
must have been warm enough to attract a dog.
Hello Larry and List,
E.L. Fireman, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory - Sky Telescope,
March
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Hi
Here's the new version: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/MCAPR73.HTML
Cheers and kudos !!! for the rescanned version from Germany,
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Hello All,
Has anyone ever done comparisons of the meteorites
found in Hopewell mounds and existing collections?
Possible Sources of Meteoritic Material from Hopewell Indian Burial Mounds
(by J.T. WASSON and S.P. SEDWICK,
Hello All,
... nickel = 59.69% ...
There is another analysis with an even higher Ni value for Oktibbeha: 62.01 % Ni
Here's a listing of some irons with a nickel content higher than Dayton's:
Oktibbeha County - 59.69
Lafayette (iron) - 59.4
Dermbach - 42.1
Santa Catharina - 33.97
Tishomingo -
Hello again,
... nickel = 59.69% ...
Oops, almost forgot Mirko Graul's NWA 6259. Sorry, Mirko!
NWA 6259, the iron with the SECOND highest nickel content so far:
= 42.6% Ni =
.. and it is even magnetic! In other words, not only is it attracted to
a magnet but is itself magnetic!
Cheers,
Just got some flak re:
NWA 6259, the iron with the SECOND highest nickel content so far:
= 42.6% Ni =
Well, one look into Vagn Buchwald's trilogy will tell you that there
are very often several (different) analysis results. So, maybe Mirko's
NWA 6259 is the iron with the third highest nickel
Hello Larry and List,
What is the best estimate we have for the ambient temperature
of meteorites after they have passed through the atmosphere?
Dhurmsala was said (!) to have had frost
on its surface when it was recovered.
Cheers,
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Any pictures of Mirko's NWA 6259 available?
Hi Dave and List,
.. on my way to bed because it's 01:05 hrs a.m. here but
pictures can be viewed here:
Hi Dave and List,
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/November_16_2010.html
My buddy Sawyer contemplating how things might have been different in
Uganda 1992, had another individual come through banana tree leaves to
strike a boy in the head...ouch!
The only solace for the boy would have been that
predict that Swift-Tuttle would not return until
late 1992. This prediction proved to be correct.
B.G. Marsden (1992) Cover Story - Comet Swift-Tuttle:
Does It Threaten Earth? (Sky Tel. 1992, pp. 16-19):
My predicted dates for the next perihelion passages of Swift-Tuttle
are July 11, 2126, and
Sad news indeed ...
Fred L. Whipple (1985) The Mystery Of Comets, p. 72:
More than two centuries of intensive comet hunting, coupled with information
from older records, give us vitally important clues to the habits of comets,
how
they move, and where they come from. The authoritative
Alan S. wrote: Ensisheim is 518 years old
Hello All,
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Thousand four hundred
Ninety two,
There was heard here a great
Noise:
Then down before the city,
The 7th of the Wintermonth*,
A huge stone, on a bright day,
Was fallen with a
Hello All,
Forwarding this message from one of our List Giants: Martin Horejsi!
Hello Bernd and All, Happy Ensisheim Day!
http://www.meteorite-times.com/navigation/accretion-desk/ensisheim-the-king-of-meteorites/
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Hello Dave, Dirk, Rob, and List,
this morning at 4:20 or 4:25AM, ... slow moving meteor ... came out of
the western sky and headed south east. It came in very low in the sky with
sparks trailing ... a very bright flash that lit up the sky and it looked like
the
front or bottom blew out as it
Chris wrote: I put mine on my computer alphabetically.
Hi Chris, Dennis, and List,
Just like Chris, I put my meteorites in my computer databases alphabetically:
Name, type, weight, dimensions, description [which includes shock and
weathering degrees, total known weight
descriptive details
Hi Adam and All,
... Discovered living in a cave on Oct. 13 in a deep canyon ...
With his supplies gone, Barber's condition is next to hopeless, when he
discovers
a cave at the top of a cliff. To his surprise he finds the interior fully
equipped;
in the bed there lies a dead man. He adopts the
Count Deiro inquires:
Have you, or any others on List, found a fossil meteorite in situ?
Considering the high degree of terrestrialization of Ordovician/fossil
meteorites
(usually the chromite content is the only hint it once was meteoritic) and also
considering the extremely low number (5 or
Good morning Steve, Greg and List,
Greg S. wrote: I understand a metachondrite to be a chondrite that has
undergone
metamorphism resulting in recrystalization. The composition is much the same as
in the original chondrite. There are different affinities, such as 'H' 'L' or
'LL'.
I think there
Steve wrote: Second!
Bernd: Third! :-))
I've been spending an enjoyable evening at the microscope ogling my
NWA 5507 slice (16.39 gr - see Encyclopedia if interested). Marcin's
NWA 5507 is an interesting L3.2 with lots of spectacular features:
- clasts (or PP chondrules?) with abundant
Steve wrote: Second!
Bernd: Third! :-))
I've been spending an enjoyable evening at the microscope ogling my
NWA 5507 slice (16.39 gr - see Encyclopedia if interested). Marcin's
NWA 5507 is an interesting L3.2 with lots of spectacular features:
- clasts (or PP chondrules?) with abundant
Oops, sorry for the double post!
Best wishes,
Bernd
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AL kindly wrote:
I believe there is an absence of olivine in mesosiderites.
Objection, Your Honor!
Norton O.R. (2002) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites, p. 157:
Accessory amounts of olivine are also present in mesosiderites
...the mineralogy of the silicate portion...is ...orthopyroxene
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/October_15_2010.html
Congrats, Bob!
Beautiful shot of a complex, porphyritic megachondrule.
What makes it so exceptional apart from its size is its
complexity: pyroxene crystals + pyroxene laths/strands.
Thanks to Michael and to Bob for sharing!
Bernd
Hello Jim and List,
NWA 1930 (LL3), Tatahouine (ADIO), NWA 1648 (ADIO), NWA 1054 (ACAP)
Spade (H5) seem to come from Jeff Rowell who used to have such labels.
As for: Cleo Springs (H4), NWA301 (H6), NWA 869 (L4-6), Sahara 99228 (H?)
.. these *seem* to be of Dean Bessey provenance
Hello Marcin,
Thank you for sharing these interesting photos of the Opava meteorite
with us. Very much appreciated and,... don't forget to upload to them
to the Encyclopedia of Meteorites.
Best wishes,
Bernd
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Ed wrote:
A wonderful report, I enjoyed the read very much.
So did I! Albireo (beta Cygni)is one of my favorites, too!
My 42-year-old daughter, when she was young, used to
call Albireo Little Sister and Brother :-)
and: Everyone knows that it is in the south... ;-)
Ed, hey, ain't it a U.S.
Hello Jim,
For heaven's sake, how time flies!
It's been three years now that you are gone!
Be assured that you are not forgotten nor ever will!
Where would all the hundreds of Gold Basin meteorites be today
Without your, Twink's, and John's meticulous field studies?
Where would those be that now
Rob W. wrote:
= As for Farmers: Mike is bringing that mass into his abdomen
to allow other muscles to assist The smile on his face is saying
Take the effin picture already
= As for Bavarianswell I have no argument
.. and what about this guy? :-)
http://spacerocksinc.com/February_9.html
Hello All,
On Saturday, August 28, 2010, Marcin introduced his latest eucrite
to us: NWA 6309, a polymict, silica- and plagioclase-rich eucrite.
Today I finally got my 8.7-gram slice and one of the thin sections
he is offering.
Even though this is not my first eucrite (meanwhile there are 86
BURKE J.G. (1986) Cosmic Debris, Meteorites in History, pp. 221-223:
The black stone in the wall of the Ka'ba is a holy relic. Muslim religious
leaders know
its origin and history through oral tradition and written records, and they
have cooperated
with inquisitive Westerners to the extent of
BURKE J.G. (1986) Cosmic Debris, Meteorites in History, pp. 221-223:
It is impossible to estimate the original size of the stone or even its present
dimensions.
One observer in the early tenth century wrote that it had a length of 1 cubit
(slightly over
2 feet). Another, who saw it during the
BURKE J.G. (1986) Cosmic Debris, Meteorites in History, pp. 221-223:
Partsch evidently favored a meteoritic origin of the stone, both because of von
Laurin's
description of the black exterior of the fragment he viewed, its interior
texture, and its
purported heaviness, and because Muslims said
Darren, thanks for this link:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/houghton/2010/09/24/look-up-in-the-sky/
.. and while we are at it, there was an equally interesting
article in the July 2010 issue of Sky Telescope, pp. 28-33:
Walt Whitman's Year of Meteors
- Poem: Year of Meteors
- 1833 Leonids?
-
Hi Ed, Gary and List,
Does anyone have Harold Povenmire's e-mail address in Indian Harbour, Fl.
= katieh...@yahoo.com =
Cheers,
Bernd
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Hello Tim, Mirko, and List,
As Mirko already pointed out, the schlieren banding will only be seen
after etching (at least slight etching or deep-etch if you prefer that).
Only then will you see these characteristic diffuse streaks (usually of group
IVB ataxites - another reason why Gebel Kamil
AL, David, List,
I mean, are the scientists really looking and checking for
fluorescent color values in meteorites on a systematic basis?
Yes, they do.
Cheers, Bernd
-
Some references :-)
S.W.S. McKeever, D.W. Sears (1980) Meteorites
Hello All,
Here are some details from an abstract,
Cheers,
Bernd
-
D.W.G. Sears, P.H. Benoit, and D.G. Akridge (1999) Thermoluminescence
and The Thermal History Of Meteorites (MAPS 34-4, 1999, A105, excerpts):
S.W.S. McKEEVER and D.W. SEARS (1980) Meteorites
That Glow (Sky and Telescope, July 1980, pp. 14-16, excerpts):
In 1802, Edward C. Howard exposed a sample of the Benares meteorite
to an electrical discharge and it glowed in the dark.
A. Herschel discovered that some grains from the Middlesbrough
Hi Ed and List,
The (average) CRE of D'Orbigny is 12.3 ± 0.9 Ma according to this abstract:
Eugster O. et al. (2002) Characterization of the noble gases and
CRE age of the D'Orbigny angrite (MAPS 37-7, 2002, A044).
Cheers,
Bernd
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Hi Kevin and List,
I don't quite qualify re: opinions sought because I have my
copy of this book on my shelf but I wouldn't want seeing:
- many photos deleted,
- color illustrations eliminated,
- the quality of the paper diminished.
And, I wouldn't need a pdf-format nor an eBook (Apple). I
Hi Tim and List,
Please, ladies and gentlemen, don't denigrate
those of us who say we collect for investment
No hard feelings, no denigration, of course, but I do remember that my passion
for stamps began to wane when I started seeing a monetary value in my stamp
collection. Money was always
Hi Bob and List,
http://www.peaktopeak.com/comets/2010/2010show.htm
Very much appreciated!
Thanks for sharing!
Bernd (just back fom his daughter's 42nd birthday :-)
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Hello Adam and List,
I read this article today and was impressed with the creative ideas and
positive approach of bringing awareness of planetary meteorites to the
rest of the world.
Agreed! But the media shouldn't call a meteorite a meteor ;-)
= A fragment of NWA 998, a meteor from Mars =
Hello Thin Section Lovers,
I just see that Marcin has loaded 23 new thin sections.
Really worth taking a look if you love thin sections!
http://www.polandmet.com/_thin_sections.htm
TS33 and TS34 are already gone but I won't tell you
who grabbed these two diogenite thin sections ;-)
Cheers,
Hello Ron and List,
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-309
Looks like it is shield-shaped and if that is real, it will probably
be flight-oriented like that big Sikhote-Alin shield, which weighs
1745 kg.
Cheers,
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http://www.rocksfromspace.org/September_20_2010.html
Phew! That would sure be a nice beginner's collection! ;-)
Salivating,
Bernd
(proud owner of a huge 0.193-gram chunk of Puerto La Pice + thin section :-)
Laurence, Michael, thanks for sharing!
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Hi David,
Now we can hear you. Yes, it's a text-only format.
HTML formats or other formats don't make it to the List!
Cheers,
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Hello All,
I think the bw photo on page 12 of the Meteorite magazine
(Feb 2003, vol. 9, no.1) is pretty close to the real thing:
What are you doing alive? - On the Road to Safsaf (by Adam Hupé)
Best wishes,
Bernd
P.S.: Also, I remember a similar photo showing Marcin doing business
with some
Mike B. wonders:
It is also interesting that NHMV's label suggests that they do
not recognize Elbogen (ca. 1400) as the oldest iron fall. Why?
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/September_18_2010.html
Hello Mike and List,
They do not recognize Elbogen as the oldest iron fall because it is
*not* a
Hello Mike B. and List,
An interesting aside concerning the Elbogen iron in the Catalogue(s) of
Meteorites:
= 3rd edition, p. 148: Elbogen, Bohemia. Fell 1400 (?)
= 4th edition, p. 131: Elbogen ... Fell 1400, possible date
= 5th edition, p. 185: Elbogen ... Fell 1400
Cheers,
Bernd
Other hobbies?
In a very particular order ;-)
- stamps
- Walt Disney cartoons
- astronomy
- gardening astronomy
- minerals (especially the quartz group)
- coins (especially Australian Kokaburra and Kangaroo)
- meteorites
- Pharaonic Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphics
- meteorites and photographing
Sonny wrote:
Here is a new chondrite that I found last week while exploring a
remote area. The fusion crust is still visible after all of these years.
http://www.nevadameteorites.com/nevadameteorites/ORDINARY_CHONDRITES.html
Hi Sonny and List,
Sincere congratulations on your latest US
Hello Steve and List,
The only meteor sightings I could find in my Sky Telescope back issues
for September do not fit the information you have provided...unfortunately.
Here is what I found in the September 1981 issue, p. 236:
New meteor shower. Last year, P. MacKinnon and R.A. Keen of
Thank you, Greg!
Very much appreciated!
So many years have passed and it still sends shivers down my spine.
And, yet again, there were tears in my eyes when I watched and relived
those terrible moments on TV while listening to the victims' names and the
messages their loved ones had written.
Rob L. kindly wrote:
Thanks Paul and Jim! I think your Meteorite-Times is one of those initiatives
here on the List, that is very much appreciated, but doesn't get the explicit
appreciation it deserves.
Hello Rob and List,
I couldn't agree more! Special thanks also to Chuck whose September
Anita wrote: Ah, the colors of Fall...
Emily Dickinson (1830-86) the daughter of Edward Dickinson, a prominent
lawyer of Amherst, Massachusetts. Here is one of her many short poems:
Autumn
The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown,
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is
Eric wondered:
Can someone tell me the proposed/accepted angle of descent
of the asteroid which formed Meteor Crater in AZ?
The trajectory of the impacting body was interpreted by Shoemaker
as traveling north-northwest at a relatively low impact angle.
and furthermore:
Wikipedia has the
Eric wrote:
The crater is not perfectly round as would be expected from an impactor
coming in at a sharper angle. In fact the crater is more elliptical in shape.
SHOEMAKER E.M. and KIEFFER S.W. (1974, 1979) Guidebook to the
Geology of Meteor Crater, Arizona (Publ. No. 17, Center for Meteorite
of a translation:
Annonce:
Ein Hündchen wird gesuchet,
Das weder murrt noch beißt,
Zerbrochene Gläser frißt
Und Diamanten...
Advertisement:
Looking for a doggie
One that doesn't snarl nor bite
Broken glass I would feed
And diamonds it would sh...
Regards,
Bernd
Hello All,
Oh, girls and boys! Just back from my voyage to Gebel Kamil on Voyage Botanica
...
Wish I had my Dukatenesel handy as we say in German. A Dukatenesel is a
fairy
story character, a donkey that ... well, whose droppings are coins. All you
have to do
is tell that nice and friendly
Twink writes:
on August 28th Richard Willey died of natural causes in Dallas,Texas.
He of course is the author of the book The Tucson Meteorites: Their
history from frontier Arizona to the Smithsonian and he spent years
searching for the source of the Tucson Ring along with others.
May he
Sorry for the typo!
* * * Richard R. Willey (1987/1997) The Tucson Meteorites * * *
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Comment:
Nat.Hist. Museum in Frankfurt, where the MPI collection
is kept on permanent loan (but not on display) now.
Jutta Zipfel (former member of the MPI and authoress of many excellent
treatises on meteorites) is the curator of that collection, so we can
be confident and sure that it is in
Darryl Pitt wrote:
(Any guesses?) The particulars of this specimen are 9x11mm
and 1.1 grams, and it is largely, if not entirely, crystalline.
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/August_30_2010_Macovich.html
My guess: an angrite, maybe paired with NWA 4590 (Tamassint).
Best wishes,
Bernd
.. and lots of plagioclase!
Beautiful eucrite!
Congrats!
Bernd
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Hello Brian, Dennis, Mark, Carl and List,
Brian wrote:
Obsidian explodes when heated quickly. So - it is easy to eliminate
an Obsidian as a Tektite, just by throwing alot of heat at it quickly.
In May or June 2000, our late Jim Kriegh put his new welding torch
on an Apache Tear, and, ... ...
Hello Mark, Carl, List,
Mark wrote:
I have collected a few of the Arizonaites (Saffordites?) in the field and
when I first saw them, I was fooled into thinking they were tektites. They
look to be solution weathered and I wonder if that in some way removed
the water that normally is in obsidian
Here are two references:
McCOY T.J. et al. (1993) Chladniite: A new mineral honoring
the father of METEORITICS (Meteoritics 28-3, 1993, A394).
McCOY T.J. et al. (1994) Chladniite, Na2CaMg7(Po4)6:
A new mineral from the Carlton IIICD iron meteorite
(Am. Mineral. 79, 375-380).
Regards,
Bernd
Eric wrote:
I don't really know the importance of the magnetic property issue
The importance lies in the possibility to determine exactly what kind of
meteorite it is, an H.x, an L.x, an LL.x, etc. According to Pierre Rochette
et al. (2003), this parameter (actually a measure of the amount of
.. please ignore!
Bernd
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Hello List,
Richard wrote: Chladnite? I see this fall is now classified as a
diogenite but could anyone discuss the term Chladnite a bit more?
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TSCHERMAK G. (1885) Die mikroskopische Beschaffenheit der
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
Larense wrote: it is 2 x 1.3 x 0.15 cm...it weights just one gram
The flattest complete meteorite in my meteorite collection
is the 3.1-gram Al Mahbas pallasite individual I purchased
from the Hupés. It measures 1.97 x 1.78 x 0.53 cm.
Regards,
Bernd
Wow, that's what's called a flat one! The Hupés sell 'em?
There are actually two Al Mahbas pieces in my collection, one of these
came from John Birdsell and it is an endcut weighing 5.926 grams.
The other piece is this flat individual with a large olivine crystal that
I acquired from the
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