With the help of John Kashuba from California who also bought a piece of this
meteorite, it appears that my nice Diogenite is more like a LL4 or maybe even
LL5. That would explain the metal, and lack of apparent chondrules on the
weathered surface. But the crust so, so nice. :)
I'm so good at
a few comments:
the crust pic was poorly done. it is really more dark with shiny crust in some
spots. overall is very "holy" or frothy looking throughout. I may do some more
pics later.
the roundish spots on the open face in pic 006, and in the overall crusted face
(spot on right) in pic 001
Hello folks,
below are some photobucket pics of the 17.6 g fragment I am talking about. I
added them just now. the pics were rushed (my apologies), and this is my first
attempt at using photobucket. let's try direct links to pics.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b164/gabbroman/besseynew00
Hello all,
This morning I finally got to look at a new fragment of a meteorite that Dean
Bessey sold as an un-cut, unclassified meteorite that is probably an LL. He
sold about 5 small pieces an I bought one of them for about $5/g. The
material was from a new supplier, making it somewhat uniqu
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