[meteorite-list] Pasamonte-B

2011-02-18 Thread Carl Agee
I am seeking information about the so-called Pasamonte-B meteorite. This is not the 1933 Pasamonte polymict eucrite, but as I understand it, an ordinary chondrite, perhaps an L6. Thanks, Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary

[meteorite-list] Oxygen isotopes

2011-03-21 Thread Carl Agee
Hi Laurence and All: We are doing 16, 17, 18O on silicates from meteorites now by laser fluorination at UNM. Give us holler if you have something interesting! Best regards, Carl Agee PS: I agree -- for good data, lots of work and $$$ Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics

[meteorite-list] NYT story

2011-04-05 Thread Carl Agee
Since I am quoted in this article, here’s my reaction to it. The reporter seems very confused, in that he lumps together a story about the Gebel Kamil crater in Egypt and the legal meteorite trade (NWA) based primarily in Morocco. During the interview with him I spent a fair amount of time trying

[meteorite-list] Meteorwrongs and Meteorites

2011-04-21 Thread Carl Agee
My take on this is the following. Most people who come to us with a suspect meteorite are for some reason expecting that identification costs us nothing, and that we can glance at sample and give quick answer. So when they go to an average geology department and get a free meteorite screening they

[meteorite-list] Density of iron at high pressure

2011-05-03 Thread Carl Agee
are ruled out simply based on the abundance of the elements in the universe. Or else this is the largest ore deposit in the neighborhood! :) What would be really interesting is to know the density distribution in this planet, which cannot be determined without knowing its moment of inertia. Carl

[meteorite-list] Mercury data

2011-06-19 Thread Carl Agee
of sulfide and not sulfate? See how important these missions of planetary exploration are and how fragmentary our understanding is? Just my opinion Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico

Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury data

2011-06-20 Thread Carl Agee
could they miss it if it's there? And if it's not there. What kind of basalt would that match? Thank you. Carl -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Of course it's

[meteorite-list] Stones with High Troilite, Low Metal

2011-06-27 Thread Carl Agee
. See metsoc 2011 abstract: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2011/pdf/5418.pdf Are you sure the sulfide is all troilite? Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131

[meteorite-list] The Apollo Moon Rock Collection

2011-06-27 Thread Carl Agee
. Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://epswww.unm.edu/iom/pers/agee.html

[meteorite-list] Apollo Samples

2011-06-28 Thread Carl Agee
scientific, technical, commercial, and operational issues associated with lunar exploration in response to requests by NASA. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/leag/ Best regards, Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050

Re: [meteorite-list] Stones with High Troilite, Low Metal

2011-06-28 Thread Carl Agee
, the best way to determine which iron sulfide(s) is present is by electron microprobe quantitative analysis or by EDS on and SEM. I was actually quite surprised when NWA 6588 turned out not to have troilite! Best regards, Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics

[meteorite-list] New Scientist Interview

2011-07-04 Thread Carl Agee
A refreshing change from NYT et al., New Scientist is usually pretty good. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128190.200-meteorite-hunter-my-two-months-in-an-omani-jail.html?full=true -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences

[meteorite-list] Geophysics, meteorites, and Electron microscopy

2011-09-06 Thread Carl Agee
-meteorites.htm Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://epswww.unm.edu/iom/pers/agee.html

Re: [meteorite-list] Geophysics, meteorites, and Electron microscopy-QUESTION

2011-09-08 Thread Carl Agee
the possibilities. It's like detective work, and personally I find it immensely engaging. Hope this helps, Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750

Re: [meteorite-list] Geophysics, meteorites, and Electron microscopy-QUESTION

2011-09-09 Thread Carl Agee
probe session may be required. Plus a lot of the time is spent puuzzling through the data and narrowing down the possibilities. It's like detective work, and personally I find it immensely engaging. Hope this helps, Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics

[meteorite-list] Friable meteorites surviving in big pieces

2011-10-25 Thread Carl Agee
Perhaps not as friable as a Tagish Lake or some others, but it seems miraculous that the 1-ton Norton County aubrite remained more or less intact! This is largest achondrite mass in the world. Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary

Re: [meteorite-list] Are Mars Meteorites Magnetic?

2012-01-03 Thread Carl Agee
Hi Eric, Yes, but not from native iron-nickel, which is normally absent in SNCs, instead from ferrimagnetic minerals such as pyrrhotite Fe7S8 and magnetite Fe3O4. Carl Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of

[meteorite-list] The IOM Sikhote Alin is back in our possession

2012-01-05 Thread Carl Agee
Incredibly, today we took possession of our Sikhote Alin specimen that was stolen out of the the Institute of Meteoritics museum over the holiday break. Tomorrow it will be flying home with one of our staff as carry-on, and a UNM police escort will be waiting at the Albuquerque Sunport to bring it

[meteorite-list] IOM meteorite catalog back online

2012-01-07 Thread Carl Agee
We have migrated our website over to a new server and now our IOM meteorite database is available online once again! It is now web browser-based, so in principle easier to use, but there are still a few bugs. Best viewed I am told with Firefox or Chrome. See link below. Unfortunately the catalog

Re: [meteorite-list] Wanted: Meteorites from Mercury

2012-01-09 Thread Carl Agee
! Of course a NASA sample return mission would be my recommendation! I'm not picky, Mercury, Venus, Mars... Carl Agee --- Message: 7 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:44:26 -0600 From: Sterling K. Webb sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [meteorite

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Classification Question - Instruments

2012-01-14 Thread Carl Agee
research tools, but not really what you need, right off the bat, for basic classification work. You must be at a very high-powered research facility! Carl Agee -- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:10:54 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Beauford

[meteorite-list] Some facts about the Sikhote-Alin theft at UNM

2012-01-15 Thread Carl Agee
in the recovery effort. Again the story is not completely played out, nor have I mentioned all the details yet, but my deepest thanks to the quick, decisive action, on New Years Day, by Anne Black, Michael Farmer and Michael Johnson! Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute

[meteorite-list] Tata-Foumzgit Martian Fall. The most significant fall of this century?

2012-01-16 Thread Carl Agee
or tampered with. Fifty or a hundred years from now it will be much scarcer, and maybe someone will be happy that I did! Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel

[meteorite-list] Tissint article on space.com

2012-01-17 Thread Carl Agee
http://www.space.com/14268-rare-mars-meteorite-rocks-tissint.html -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu

[meteorite-list] NPR Science Friday and other radio

2012-01-19 Thread Carl Agee
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201201203 Chris Herd from U. Alberta and Chair of the MetSoc Nomenclature Committee will be a guest on NPR's Science Friday tomorrow discussing Tissint. For those of you in Africa, I just finished a pre-recorded interview with BBC Focus on Africa

Re: [meteorite-list] NPR Science Friday and other radio

2012-01-19 Thread Carl Agee
was acquire Tissint for our collection! Carl Agee On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:40 AM, karmaka karmaka-meteori...@t-online.de wrote: Hello Carl and list, The BBC 'Focus on Africa' interview can be heard here now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/emp/pop.shtml?p=/worldservice/meta/tx/flash

[meteorite-list] TISSINT OFFER TO RESEARCHERS / Re: Chris Herd talking about the Tissint meteorite - NPR 'Science Friday'

2012-01-24 Thread Carl Agee
. The other main goals are to display meteorites for the public and preserve the collection for posterity. Luckily, we are fortunate to be able to do all three of these functions with our recent Tissint acquisition! Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics

Re: [meteorite-list] TISSINT OFFER TO RESEARCHERS / Re: Chris Herd talking about the Tissint meteorite - NPR 'Science Friday'

2012-01-24 Thread Carl Agee
must be returned with in 6 months to a year. Also, if you are performing destructive analyses of substantial quantities it's probably not good form to rely on loaned material, but to purchase your own as part of the research overhead. Thanks, Carl On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Carl Agee

[meteorite-list] Tissint and IOM on KNME-PBS

2012-02-17 Thread Carl Agee
http://www.knme.org/connect/ The short QA is at minute 24 in the program clip. Enjoy! -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577

Re: [meteorite-list] Tissint and IOM on KNME-PBS

2012-02-18 Thread Carl Agee
Hi Shaw All: The most recent findings will be reported at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, next month in Houston, by Irving et al. Here is the link to the session New Martian Meteorites and New Perspectives on Old Favorites: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2012/pdf/sess204.pdf

Re: [meteorite-list] Tissint and IOM on KNME-PBS

2012-02-18 Thread Carl Agee
Hi MikeG, Not a stupid question at all. As far as I know anyone can register to attend the LPSC. It is not by invitation only, but there is a fee for registration, here is the meeting webpage: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2012/ There are usually something like 2000 papers presented as

Re: [meteorite-list] New Met Bulletin Approvals - new Czech meteorites

2012-02-22 Thread Carl Agee
of grade W2, the rest being W1. Among the W1s is ALHA77278 (category A) with a terrestrial age of 320,000 yr Best regards, Carl Agee PS: we don't what the climate was like in Roosevelt Co. 30,000 years ago, maybe it was wetter too! Message: 1 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:04:54 -1000 From: Gary

[meteorite-list] Meteorite thief finally arrested at UNM

2012-02-23 Thread Carl Agee
A TV-news reporter showed up at the IOM today telling us UNM police had finally tracked down and arrested the guy who stole our Sikhote Alin. He was caught in the act of a another campus burglary yesterday! This story gets another strange twist. Here is the link to the segment broadcast at 5 PM.

[meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - Over 300 new Antarctics

2012-02-26 Thread Carl Agee
or data come up short. I know it's a lot of work for the editor, but I really enjoy reading the more detailed write-ups -- potentially a great resource for scientists and collectors! Carl Agee Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03

[meteorite-list] Curation of meteorites containing organics

2012-04-30 Thread Carl Agee
I just saw Jim Wooddell's post about aluminum foil and the new CM fall. It turns out that aluminum foil does react somewhat with carbonaceous chondrite. Apparently the recommended storage material is Teflon. This is what is used in NASA's Lunar Lab (Teflon bags and gloves). Cold and dry (nitrogen)

Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - 369 ANSMET 36(1) approvals and changes.

2013-02-25 Thread Carl Agee
The ANSMET yield is Interesting from a statistical perspective. If anyone thinks NWA is not high-graded in Morocco, then think again! Makes you spoiled, darn! just Howardite -- I had hoped it was a Lunar Breccia or yet another pyroxene-phyric shergottite! LOL Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroid/Asteroid Electro-Magnetic Disruption and Charge Properties?

2013-02-27 Thread Carl Agee
significant large pieces of surviving material? It seems like Chelyabinsk is outside the sweet spot as it apparently produced mostly fragments even though it had large mass. On the other hand much bigger masses may also survive. Is it bimodal? Thanks, Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator

Re: [meteorite-list] my response to an approach by a journalist

2013-03-02 Thread Carl Agee
by the way, did not use a fact-checker. But I was not misquoted in the story, so I can't complain about that, I think a lot of the negative actually came from one of the other individuals who was interviewed -- which of course the reporter used in the article. Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director

Re: [meteorite-list] sharp protrusion from an iron meteorite

2013-03-07 Thread Carl Agee
abundant mineral in NWA 7034, behind feldspar and pyroxene. Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http

[meteorite-list] NWA5400

2013-03-11 Thread Carl Agee
much more recent than ~4.5 B.Y., then things would get interesting. This is because asteroidal achondrites have ages ~4.5 B.Y., whereas planets tend to have younger basalts. Likewise, the search for meteorites from Mercury or Venus should include igneous crystallization ages as part of the proof. Carl

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA5400

2013-03-11 Thread Carl Agee
., whereas planets tend to have younger basalts. Likewise, the search for meteorites from Mercury or Venus should include igneous crystallization ages as part of the proof. Carl Agee Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050

[meteorite-list] Fwd: Postponement of the 8th International Mars Conference to 2014

2013-03-26 Thread Carl Agee
As the Sequestration starts to propagate... Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http

Re: [meteorite-list] Novato update

2013-04-30 Thread Carl Agee
. For example, you cannot submit an abstract to LPSC or MetSoc on an unclassified or provisional meteorite. Classification is absolutely the first thing that should happen. Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University

Re: [meteorite-list] World's Largest Meteorites by Type

2013-06-13 Thread Carl Agee
The MetBull can be revised or updated with a write-up submitted to the NomCom, but it requires an individual to take the time to actually do that work. For example, I revised NWA 7034 to Martian Basaltic Breccia after my original Achondrite-ung, a year earlier. As far as revising TKW in the

[meteorite-list] Fwd: Tuesday @ 7pm: Carl Agee on a New Unique Meteorite from Mars

2013-07-04 Thread Carl Agee
-- Forwarded message -- From: Adrian Brown abr...@seti.org Date: Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:17 PM Subject: Tuesday @ 7pm: Carl Agee on a New Unique Meteorite from Mars To: colloqu...@seti.org Please join us next Tuesday at 7pm for a free public talk at the SETI Institute Headquarters

Re: [meteorite-list] Dunite meteorites?

2013-07-24 Thread Carl Agee
: a...@unm.edu http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/ On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Hi Jack, But there are dunite meteorites! I just classified a brachinite that is a dunite. Also the martian C in SNC is for the dunite Chassigny. Most PACs are olivine rich

Re: [meteorite-list] Dunite meteorites?

2013-07-24 Thread Carl Agee
? This of course doesn't make sense because then it would be considered an anomalous achondrite. I did not think the the O-isotopes were supposed to vary to the degree that they can be considered heterogeneous. Thanks! Mendy Ouzillou From: Carl Agee

Re: [meteorite-list] The NWA 6435 name on MetSoc Database = Nightmare

2013-09-23 Thread Carl Agee
Mendy, Not to meddle in other people's classifications, but to me the geochemistry and mineralogy does look like a brachinite and not a diogenite. Carl * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03

Re: [meteorite-list] The NWA 6435 name on MetSoc Database = Nightmare

2013-09-23 Thread Carl Agee
Of course I'm referring to NWA 5435 in the MetBull! No, I agree this is very confusing! Another reason to do away with Provisonals. There are so many that will never get classified -- a waste of time in my opinion. Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator

Re: [meteorite-list] First fragment of Chelyabinsk meteorite raised from bottom of Lake Chebarkul

2013-09-24 Thread Carl Agee
They use dry nitrogen to thaw Antarctic meteorites at NASA JSC. Maybe that would be worth doing for the truly museum grade pieces -- if there are any found in the lake. Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth

Re: [meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update - 196 Approvals, NWA, Sahara, Winner South Dakota

2013-09-27 Thread Carl Agee
Hi Mike, Winner is definitely a winner. The write-up does not mention that UNM and ASU both now have full slices of Winner in their collections. Beautiful and unusual OC, South Dakota meteorite! Best regards, Carl * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator,

Re: [meteorite-list] Exploring the Solar System in Antarctica (NWA vs Antarctica)

2013-10-09 Thread Carl Agee
Hi Mike, Add to that list NWA 7731 (L3.00). Semarkona (LL3.00) may still be King, but 7731 is certainly a Prince! The only thing that Antarctic finds have going for them is that weathering is much slower there than in North Africa, so fresher material in general. But if I look at the ANSMET

Re: [meteorite-list] Exploring the Solar System in Antarctica (NWA vs Antarctica)

2013-10-09 Thread Carl Agee
: a...@unm.edu http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/ On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Hi Mike, Add to that list NWA 7731 (L3.00). Semarkona (LL3.00) may still be King, but 7731 is certainly a Prince! The only thing that Antarctic finds have going for them

Re: [meteorite-list] Exploring the Solar System in Antarctica (NWA vs Antarctica)

2013-10-09 Thread Carl Agee
, Mendy On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 1:28 PM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Northwest Africa 2737, the only other chassignite. * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New

Re: [meteorite-list] Exploring the Solar System in Antarctica (NWA vs Antarctica)

2013-10-09 Thread Carl Agee
- Original Message - From: Carl Agee a...@unm.edu To: Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com Cc: Adam Hupe raremeteori...@yahoo.com; Adam meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Exploring the Solar System in Antarctica

Re: [meteorite-list] Exploring the Solar System in Antarctica (NWA vs Antarctica)

2013-10-10 Thread Carl Agee
I think where NWA and the hot desert finds have had the greatest benefit to science with a capital S are in achondrites and in particular martian meteorites. If you look at the abstracts at 2012-2013 LPSC and MetSoc (no, I didn't actually count them) the martian meteorite literature is now

Re: [meteorite-list] Exploring the Solar System in Antarctica (NWA vs Antarctica)

2013-10-10 Thread Carl Agee
of NWA 5000 on the wall right across the hall from the NASA Moon rock vault. This tells me that the researches are sample oriented and where a Moon rock comes from is secondary. This enhances data acquisition instead of competing against it. Adam - Original Message - From: Carl

Re: [meteorite-list] New conflict concerning the Grefsen mass of the Oslo meteorite

2013-10-31 Thread Carl Agee
contacted them? Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http

Re: [meteorite-list] SoCal Fireball - 19:50 PST 06 November 2013

2013-11-07 Thread Carl Agee
Yes, and can we please have a first lunar fall? Oh, and I want a piece for the Museum :) Carl * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126

[meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill now at IOM

2012-05-18 Thread Carl Agee
Thanks to Mike Miller and Ruben Garcia, Sutter's Mill is now part of the IOM collection. Check out these two exquisite gems -- the fusion crust is simply gorgeous. SM 31 on right is fully crusted. We also acquired some fragments for research. Guess what will be on the microprobe next week!

Re: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill now at IOM

2012-05-18 Thread Carl Agee
Johnson chairlift...@yahoo.com wrote: Carl, As the finder of SM41, I'm happy to see it go to a good home!  I'm still out hunting and hope to add another (or more) to the list. David Johnson Sacramento,CA Sent from my iPad On May 18, 2012, at 9:02 PM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Thanks

[meteorite-list] Some backscatter electron images of Sutter's Mill

2012-05-25 Thread Carl Agee
Had some fun analyzing Sutter's Mill yesterday on the electron microprobe. Here are a few images for your viewing pleasure. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4042115930181set=a.1076549432872.2012978.1200325441type=1ref=nf

[meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill BSE - two more

2012-05-25 Thread Carl Agee
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4042491099560set=a.1076549432872.2012978.1200325441type=1ref=nf http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4042494859654set=a.1076549432872.2012978.1200325441type=1ref=nf -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and

Re: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill BSE - two more

2012-05-25 Thread Carl Agee
-- haha!. Beware of this meteorite! Like going down the rabbit hole Carl - Carl, What's the difference between the two lithologies visible in the first of these two photos? Jeff On 5/25/2012 2:19 PM, Carl Agee wrote: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php

Re: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill BSE - two more

2012-05-25 Thread Carl Agee
and type, I will leave that to the unequilibrated chondrite experts like Jeff Grossman and Alan Rubin. MetSoc will be very interesting this year: Tissint, Sutter's Mill, and NWA 7034. You haven't heard about NWA 7034? Oh you will... Carl Agee On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Richard Montgomery rickm

[meteorite-list] Fwd: Sutter's Mill BSE - two more

2012-05-26 Thread Carl Agee
From: Carl Agee a...@unm.edu Date: Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:19 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill BSE - two more To: Sterling K. Webb sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net Cc: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com, Richard Montgomery rickm...@earthlink.net But I have some more

[meteorite-list] MetSoc 2012

2012-06-30 Thread Carl Agee
. And of course, a talk on my favorite meteorite NWA 7034: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2012/pdf/5391.pdf The whole Program can be accessed at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2012/pdf/program.pdf Carl Agee Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth

[meteorite-list] 13yo Boy Finds Rio Rancho Meteorite

2012-07-07 Thread Carl Agee
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/07/07/news/space-rockhound.html -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu

[meteorite-list] Rio Rancho meteorite story on Channel 13

2012-07-12 Thread Carl Agee
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=4293327050302saved -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu

[meteorite-list] NASA Scientists and Engineers Receive Presidential Early Career Awards

2012-07-24 Thread Carl Agee
Congratulations to IOM's Francis McCubbin! NASA and the President also appreciate meteorite experts :) - Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax:

[meteorite-list] Enstatite Connection to Mercury

2012-09-25 Thread Carl Agee
regards, Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee

[meteorite-list] Water cutting question

2012-11-20 Thread Carl Agee
oxidation than mineral water? I can understand using pure water to cut down on trace element contamination for geochemical srtudies, especially on stones, but I don't see how this helps for keeping irons from rusting. Also, while we are at it, what is the best blade for cutting irons? Thanks, Carl Agee

[meteorite-list] NWA 7034 Martian (Basaltic Breccia)

2013-01-07 Thread Carl Agee
My revised classification of NWA 7034 was approved yesterday for this new type of martian meteorite:

[meteorite-list] UNM clip: NWA 7034 aka Black Beauty

2013-01-19 Thread Carl Agee
that are not in the recent Science article article, this includes martian atmospheric noble gases, cosmic ray exposure, magnetism, and more the oxygen isotope anomaly and origin of the brecciation. Also, there will be talks on the Black Beauty pairing NWA 7533. Thanks, Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034

2013-01-25 Thread Carl Agee
on locality: I propose saharaite. So we now have the meteorites from Mars or SCANS S: shergottite C: chassignite A: ALH 84001 N: nakhlite S: saharaite Enjoy! Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034

2013-01-25 Thread Carl Agee
meteoroid in interplanetary space (before Earth entry) is estimated at diameter ~50 cm, so anyone hoping that there are many 10s of kg of Black Beauty on the ground in the Saraha will be disappointed. Thanks, Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034

2013-01-25 Thread Carl Agee
not carved in stone quite yet... Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://meteorite.unm.edu/people

Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 7034

2013-01-25 Thread Carl Agee
of the eucrites are breccias. The difference for NWA 7034 is that is not a shergottite breccia, a nakhlite breccia, or chassignite breccia -- not an SNC type martian meteorite. It is an alkali-rich basalt, thus a new type of martian -- which also happens to be a breccia. Carl Agee -- Carl B

Re: [meteorite-list] Nwa 7034

2013-01-26 Thread Carl Agee
. Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee

Re: [meteorite-list] Nwa 7034

2013-01-27 Thread Carl Agee
, glimpses of diversity of Mars' unique geology. Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http

Re: [meteorite-list] Nwa 7034

2013-01-27 Thread Carl Agee
: Carl Agee a...@unm.edu To: meteoritelist meteoritelist meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:20 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Nwa 7034 Hi Jeff, Of course the comparison between chondrite groups and martian types is not perfect. The different martian types

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - Black Beauty

2013-02-12 Thread Carl Agee
of the reduced carbon -- my team has been studying this meteorite with numerous lab techniques since August 2011. PS: the Science Article print version will be on newsstands Feb. 15. Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - Black Beauty

2013-02-14 Thread Carl Agee
! Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/ On Thu, Feb 14

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - Black Beauty

2013-02-14 Thread Carl Agee
that slogan again in the VISA ads? Best, Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://meteorite.unm.edu

Re: [meteorite-list] AD - Black Beauty

2013-02-14 Thread Carl Agee
I agree, in fact I have done numerous break/chip/cleave on BB, especially for the destructive analyses for isotopes. But the flat surfaces from saw cuts, ground and polished, are needed for microprobe and SEM. Carl Agee -- Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor

Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Carl Agee
Marco, Gefeliciteerd! -Carl * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu

Re: [meteorite-list] Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years - space - 13 December 2013 - New Scientist

2013-12-14 Thread Carl Agee
For those of you who don't understand Dutch, the lady in the YouTube clip is the owner of Diepenveen and she donated it to museum Naturalis (which is the merger of the Royal Museums at Leiden). Neat story, and clearly great publicity for meteoritics! Now just waiting on Karen Ziegler to tell

Re: [meteorite-list] ADVERT: Subtype 3.00 — NO RESERVE

2013-12-20 Thread Carl Agee
3.00 ( like L2.9 etc.) are not used in OC even though some aqueous alteration might be present. A while back Hutchison et al. (1987) proposed that Semarkona is in fact LL2, but it doesn't seem like that idea ever caught on. Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director

Re: [meteorite-list] KATOL (L6) is official

2013-12-31 Thread Carl Agee
Super write-up by Laurence Garvie, but strange that there was so much mystery surrounding what turns out to be garden variety L6, albeit a nice fresh fall. I wonder why people thought it was achondrite-ung? Oxygen and geochem are unequivocal EOC, no mystery at all. Carl Agee

Re: [meteorite-list] KATOL (L6) is official

2013-12-31 Thread Carl Agee
nearly green with crystals. Not your garden variety L6 for sure. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPad On Dec 31, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Super write-up by Laurence Garvie, but strange that there was so much mystery surrounding what turns out to be garden variety L6

Re: [meteorite-list] KATOL (L6) is official

2013-12-31 Thread Carl Agee
On Wednesday, 1 January 2014, Andy Tomkins wrote: On Wednesday, 1 January 2014, Carl Agee wrote: Hi Mike, No doubt an interesting meteorite! I guess I should qualify it by saying the oxygen and the olivine and pyroxene geochem data are garden variety EOC. I guess looks can be deceiving -- yet

Re: [meteorite-list] KATOL (L6) is official

2013-12-31 Thread Carl Agee
an L6 with white matrix and some pieces nearly green with crystals. Not your garden variety L6 for sure. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPad On Dec 31, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Super write-up by Laurence Garvie, but strange that there was so much mystery surrounding

Re: [meteorite-list] KATOL (L6) is official

2013-12-31 Thread Carl Agee
of that. But the result does not reflect that. Just like Al Haggounia 001, the aubrite. It's odd, and I do think that 'pigeonholing' is the right term to use here. Regards, Jason www.fallsandfinds.com On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Mike, Andy, Jim, I don't have

Re: [meteorite-list] KATOL (L6) is official

2014-01-01 Thread Carl Agee
Beautiful oriented and flow lines! I assume all the circular and spherical shapes are chondrules peeking through the fusion crust? Thanks for sharing Mike! Carl * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary

Re: [meteorite-list] KATOL (L6) is official

2014-01-01 Thread Carl Agee
Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/ On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Beautiful oriented and flow lines! I assume all the circular and spherical shapes are chondrules

Re: [meteorite-list] KATOL (L6) is official

2014-01-01 Thread Carl Agee
are flow lines and small impact pits similar to those you find on Sikhote Alin... Graham On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Or perhaps the sphericals are vesiculation of fusion crust? I agree with Jim, it would be nice to see some BSE images. Carl

Re: [meteorite-list] KATOL (L6) is official

2014-01-01 Thread Carl Agee
Check out the geochem plots now posted in the MetBull for Katol: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/drawplot.php?x=24.9y=0.4plot=2label=Katol%20%28L6%29 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/drawplot.php?x=21.9y=0.5plot=3label=Katol%20%28L6%29

Re: [meteorite-list] KATOL (L6) is official

2014-01-02 Thread Carl Agee
inclusions from the iron or for that matter oxygen isotopes of the lithologies that seem to be more like achondrite, you could start to sort out if it is all from the same meteoroid. Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor

Re: [meteorite-list] KATOL (L6) is official

2014-01-02 Thread Carl Agee
On Jan 2, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote: Hi MikeG and All: The iron might be from L6 if it turns out that the few silicates in it (olivine and pyroxenes) have L6 geochem. You see that in the H-metal from Yucca. Of course large metal masses are probably not as commonly associated

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

2014-01-06 Thread Carl Agee
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

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