[meteorite-list] Question about shock veins...?

2007-10-03 Thread ensoramanda
Hi, In the photos of the Carancas meteorite I posted recently it is obvious that it is full of shock veins. Mike Farmer also mentioned this characteristic in his pieces and that it had fragmented along some of these veins. My photographs show what may be a surface like this...or it could be

Re: [meteorite-list] Question about shock veins...?

2007-10-03 Thread Rob McCafferty
--- ensoramanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is...Could it be possible that the shock veins were produced as a direct result of the hypervelocity impact or is that not possibleare they much more likely to be formed in space during asteroid impacts. O. Richard Norton's