[meteorite-list] What is more important in classification?

Hi all! Just a few general questions... The involves a mount and a thin section. What is more important now-a-days in classification? This mainly revolves some questions I have that I am not sure how to ask...mainly to those that classify. If you have a million dollar Scanning Election

Re: [meteorite-list] What is more important in classification?

Hi Jim, The electron microprobe is the workhorse for classifications, and most of this can be done simply with a probe mount (epoxy mounted sample that has been polished). In general you don't need a thin section or a petrographic microscope, although I always use a reflected light petrographic

Re: [meteorite-list] What is more important in classification?

-825-3202 e-mail: aeru...@ucla.edu website: http://cosmochemists.igpp.ucla.edu/Rubin.html - Original Message - From: Jim Wooddell jim.woodd...@suddenlink.net To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 7:57 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] What is more important

Re: [meteorite-list] What is more important in classification?

Carl Agee Envoyé : lundi 6 janvier 2014 18:10 À : Jim Wooddell Cc : meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Objet : Re: [meteorite-list] What is more important in classification? Hi Jim, The electron microprobe is the workhorse for classifications, and most of this can be done simply with a probe mount

Re: [meteorite-list] What is more important in classification?

Hello Melinda, Alan and Carl, Thank you all very much for these explanations and the learning opportunity. You folks are great! I suppose I over worry about things when one person orders a mount and another a mount and thin section and another just a thin section. Sometimes a returned