The spots Mike is referring to don't look like rust spots to me. After photographing meteorites for several years, my guess is that they are bright iron/nickel particles reflecting either skin tone color or something else, like a shirt, close by that is a warm orange brown.
Cut a round hole in a large piece of white poster board just large enough for the camera lens to fit through, and shoot the specimen in identical lighting. The colored spots will reflect their true silver/white color in the new image.
John
John Gwilliam
At 07:31 PM 4/3/03 -0700, Michael Farmer wrote:
Adam, why does your piece have rust spots all over the cut face if you cut in alcohol?
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From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Adam Hupe
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Dear List Members,
After cutting up several specimens of this new fall it appears it may have too much metal to be classified as an LL although the Fa number appears to fall into the LL range. Here is a picture below showing a polymict breccia texture.
<http://www.lunarrock.com/ParkForest/parkforest1.jpg>http://www.lunarrock. com/ParkForest/parkforest1.jpg
Mark mentioned finding glass globules attached to the crust of his fragment. After hearing this we examined over two dozen specimens and found the same thing on about half of them. I did not observe dumbbell or patty shapes on any of them. We are curious if anybody may have found these shapes. We are receiving a final shipment from Park Forest tomorrow and will be able to figure out a very decent price if anybody is interested. We will also put up several expertly prepared slices for consideration at this yet to be determined low price, less than what people are paying in the field now!
All the best,
Adam Hupe
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