Hi Richard,
What else but TP should be used for a Camel's Donga?
Michael
On 7/24/10 6:58 PM, "Richard Montgomery" <rickm...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi List...something to add....recently I recieved my best-yet Camel Donga in
> the mail, "appropriately" packaged from down under, although the inner
> wrapping was a generous coil of TP (toilet paper, chemically scented, no
> less)... Alas! As a mychophile, naturally I smell every new specimen
> ungo to bless my forays, the small a key character to published and
> described species. I didn't expect the pungent odor of "pretty-stuff" to
> envelop my new complete and awesome eucrite, so I allowed it to sit under
> the scope over-night, in hopes of no sugar-plums dancing around in the
> morning.
>
> Fortunately, no residudal smell, that I could detect, twelve hours later;
> yet/and thanks to that shiney crust I hope no terestrial crap happened to
> it.....but it does re-inforce the need for awareness on shipping and
> packaging.
>
> What are we wrapping our specimens in????
>
> Richard M
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Meteorites USA" <e...@meteoritesusa.com>
> To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stinky meteorites
>
>
>> Baby powder meteorite, camel pee meteorite? I wonder where those came
>> from? They sound familiar. ;)
>>
>> Baby powder, good...
>>
>> Camel pee, bad...
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> On 7/24/2010 11:51 AM, geo...@aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I have an end cut of an uNWA chondrite which smelled like urine when
>>>>>
>>> cut.<<
>>>
>>> It might have been on a camel trail?
>>> GeoZay
>>>
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