I knew I'd seen that somewhere!!!
I pulled out my cat's whisker detector and sure enough
that's just what it looked like.
Pete, IMCA 1773, KL7GNW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Del Waterbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>; "David & Kitt Deyarmin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mr EMan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite
If I was going to take a guess of what was in that picture I would say it
looks like Galena. Not sure if this one has been suggested yet, but that
what it looks like to me.
Del
--- On Fri, 6/27/08, Mr EMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Mr EMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com, "David & Kitt Deyarmin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 4:01 AM
Before anyone falls on their sword over this specimen, note
the gas channel/tube in the middle-- scraggy as it is, even
Na tan isn't worm eaten!
It was my observation that, while many folks submitted lots
of candidates which I enjoyed looking over, there were many
subtle distinctions and outright differences that
didn't match. The specimen "resembled" most
of them but on closer viewing didn't "match"
any of them. The most common feature was metallic luster
but twasn't the same metallic luster on any of the
photos.
Not trying to be pedantic but many times it is better to
look for the differences in all the features(e.g. fracture,
texture, crystal faces, etc.) It the specimens match there
will be none.
I don't have a photo of metallic silicon handy but it
too has subtle surface differences: it has a convex,
undulating, fracture vs the flat banded fractures this
specimen shows.
Up to this point, the gas channel most certainly points to
a smelting product(aka slag or bad run) and, I would be
comfortable saying that I know what it is not. The great
part about all the photo sharing is we now have many more
materials to compare when we are trying to identify a given
specimen. Plus I wouldn't have totally blown that
mesosiderite photo a few months back had I looked closer.
Thanks Bunches,
Elton
Elton
--- On Thu, 6/26/08, Ruben Garcia
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What bad news? You didn't think it looked like
this
> nantan meteorite?
http://www.mr-meteorite.com/nantan.htm
> To me this is the only picture that looked like
yours...
> what did I miss?
> --- On Thu, 6/26/08, David & Kitt Deyarmin
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I will relay the bad news to my friend
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