> The Nageswarans have not decided what to do with their meteorite, >> despite plenty of advice from family and friends. But they said they >> want to make sure that the rock, which they have locked up at a bank, >> serves an educational purpose. > > SO TEST THE DAMN THING! Who is advising this family?!! It is > aggravating that people who appear to want to do the right thing > [e.g. serve an "educational purpose"] have either not been told of > the importance of short-lived isotope testing, or have not heeded > the message. > > And just as a reminder, it has yet to be proved that this object is > even a meteorite! Four gentlemen passing around a metallic lump for > ten minutes does not constitute a conclusive analysis, regardless of > how many papers they've published on meteorites. > > --Rob
Exactly, Rob! Irons just cannot be identified with certainty by a visual inspection only. Too many industrial products look like legitimate irons. I do not trust a "positive" identification without a proper lab report. Besides of that, given how the object looks in the pictures it is paramount that shortlived isotopes prove this is a fresh fall and not an eBay fall. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.dmsweb.org priv. website: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek ----- ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
