Martin appreciatively wrote: "Great pieces of iron Bernd"
Thanks Martin. These explosive fragments were among the first S-A pieces "easily" available back in 1986, when I acquired them at the Munich Meteorite and Gem Show. Regmaglypted specimens were very hard to get and really cost a little fortune. "is there really such a thing as a shield-shaped nose-cone shrapnel-like fragment of S-A?" The answer is, of course, no, if you think of the aerodynamical processes that shaped the real shield-shaped nose-cones with their thumbprints. I was only referring to the geometric shape of my specimen - not to the aerodynamic flight through the atmosphere. My piece was probably spalled off too late in its flight but it does mimic the real ones. Maybe a few more kilometers would have been sufficient to make it what it looks like (... or what I would like it to be ;-) Cheers, Bernd ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
