<How do the determine the difference between a metal rich Diogenite and a Diogenite rich Mesosiderite? This meteorite looks like Vaca Muerta with a abundace of Diogenite?>
Hello Tom and list Mike Farmer brought back several kilos of this material on his last trip to Morocco thinking it was a mesosiderite. A piece Mike sent to a classifier confirmed it is not a mesosiderite. Preliminary is that it is an anomalous metal rich diogenite. The silicate material is completely recrystalized. I cut some of the material for Mike when he returned from the last trip and it is very nice including a couple small ~1-2 mm gem quality green olivine crystals as well as large inclusions. It also has lots of metal like a mesosiderite. Mike and I will have some of this material available soon when the classification is a bit more nailed down. Eric Olson ELKK Meteorites http://www.star-bits.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
