As to what Rob has raised--I did see several chondrules in the photos. This looks much like the friable L;s we have seen and contains slickensides which would tend to make it a monomyct breccia. However these large metal blebs are intriguing and might make this an anomalous stone. I didn't see any thing in the photos which appeared to be a true shock vein, only the slicken sides. However for there to be large blebs/clasts of iron and or olivine in the stone it must have had a very shocked history with possibly injected components of an iron or pallasite. If so, this might explain the initial declaration that this was a "chondritic pallasite".
Elton --- Rob Matson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Based only on the images of the exteriors, I would > consider the specimens very unlikely to be chondritic. But there~are~ some chondrite-like features in the thin sections (though I wouldn't call them unambiguously chondrules). The rims are indistinct, there are no shock veins visible, and the interference colors don't seem quite right. I'll forward the images to a few experts to get their opinions, but if this > is a chondrite, it would seem to be a metamorphised, > highly brecciated one." > --Rob ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list