Most meteorite petrographers have a lot of experience looking at meteorite
whole rocks, not just thin sections. Over the years, I can usually tell a
meteorite from a wrong, but when I am not sure, I make a thin section before
making an announcement. What I am not so good at is guessing what kind of a
meteorite it is before I see a thin section. Jason Utas, for example, is
much better at that than I am.
Alan Rubin
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
University of California
3845 Slichter Hall
603 Charles Young Dr. E
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567
phone: 310-825-3202
e-mail: aeru...@ucla.edu
website: http://cosmochemists.igpp.ucla.edu/Rubin.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "dorifry" <dori...@embarqmail.com>
To: "Michael Mulgrew" <mikest...@gmail.com>; "Michael Farmer"
<m...@meteoriteguy.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lisa Webber's is a meteorite
Michael,
A lot of times scientists used to working in labs with thin slices can't
tell an ordinary chondrite from a hole in the ground. They often
specialize in a narrow academic field and have no experience handling all
different types of meteorites. It's hard to beat years of hands on
experience when it comes to field grading meteorites. Plus, these stones
have highly unusual crust. I didn't think they were meteorites because of
the weird crust, but it's hard to tell just from looking at an out of
focus photograph.
Phil Whitmer
Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Mulgrew" <mikest...@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Farmer" <m...@meteoriteguy.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>; "Brien Cook"
<cont...@briencook.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lisa Webber's is a meteorite
Am I to understand that one of NASA's best has problems identifying a
meteorite? Is anyone else concerned by that?
Michael in So. Cal.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Michael Farmer <m...@meteoriteguy.com>
wrote:
Of course it is. Sadly the damage is done. I am in Germany and all I am
seeing is news reports now calling it a meteor wrong. What a
cluster#+~>.
Michael Farmer
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 25, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Brien Cook <cont...@briencook.com> wrote:
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