Nice Pete.
I notice you comment on the odour when cutting. I have also noticed a
similar odour, which I would describe as river mud, freshly hauled out!
David R Childs
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21 Lutetia is an enstatite!
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/e-la11.php
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First problem is: That's NOT an iron meteorite.
Second problem is: It's a highly weathered Chondrite and that isn't
gonna get much better.
Sorry
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Guenther abe.guent...@mnsi.net wrote:
Hi all,
A year ago I found a large heavy iron meteorite. When I found it
Abe,
AlI joking aside.. We do use a wire wheel (fine bristles) to clean
iron meteorites.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Greg Hupé gmh...@centurylink.net wrote:
Hello Abe,
While I am not typically involved in cleaning iron meteorites, I think
sandblasting with glass beads may be the way
I wouldn't do anything to it, certainly can do more damage than good.
Stuart McDaniel
Lawndale, NC
Secr.,
Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
IMCA #9052
http://spacerocks.weebly.com
-Original Message-
From: Ruben Garcia
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 11:54 AM
To: Guenther
Cc:
Hi Guenther,
As you have already had a go at it with a wire brush it is difficult o
say what is best as we can't tell what it originally looked like. As
Ruben said, it looks more like a weathered stoney chondrite with just
a few flecks of metal left where it has a window cutUnless it was
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1144/
Lutetia: a Rare Survivor from the Birth of the Earth
European Southern Observatory
11 November 2011
New observations indicate that the asteroid Lutetia is a leftover
fragment of the same original material that formed the Earth, Venus and
Mercury.
Hi Abe,
You already got some good advice from the List. That is a weathered
stony chondrite and not an iron. That brownish coloration is a
coating of desert varnish, which is a thin layer of mineral
desposits that build up over a long period of exposure to the
elements. Some less experienced
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES
November 7-11, 2011
o Dune (07 November 2011)
http://themis.asu.edu/node/5754
o Dunes in Crater (08 November 2011)
http://themis.asu.edu/node/5755
o Coprates Catena (09 November 2011)
http://themis.asu.edu/node/5756
o Windstreaks (10 November 2011)
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html#opportunity
OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Rover Continues Studies While Heading North -
sols 2764-2770, November 02-08, 2011:
The seasonal plan for Opportunity is to winter over on the north end of
Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater where
If you really had an iron that wouldn't suffer damage to a nice aged
patina, and had undesireable gunk of any sort on it a good old
fashioned steel wire brush seems to be the standard. It's just one
meteorite and what's the rush?
I once had an iron meteorite I found that got some hardened
Hi Abe,
Rather than an iron meteorite, it looks like you've got a stony
meteorite or chondrite there. From its appearance, it's seems plenty
clean enough. That's kind of how chondrites look -- dark with a
weathered grey to brown exterior. Most of my own weathered chondrites
like yours appear a
For those who are not registered with Bonhams. Lots of nice stuff! Check out
the online catalog...
Dennis
Subject: Catalog Now Online: Natural History - San Francisco Highlights Preview
November 11-15th
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:00:55 +
Bonhams' Natural History
Seen my messages here arrive after 2 years, and I do not why, I anticpate my
ebay auctions ends at 3 days.
http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPageuserid=mcomemeteorite
after this auctions, if pieces not go sold, they return to original prices,
seen here its with discount.
Cool, now we know where all of our enstantite meteorites likely come from.
Michael Farmer
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On Nov 11, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Benjamin P. Sun bpsun2...@gmail.com wrote:
21 Lutetia is an enstatite!
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/e-la11.php
Considering that it is being publicly sold for less than 1/3 that price makes
this article is bunk. Even Krasnojarsk hardly sells for $200 gram.
Yup, this misinformation further hampers field recoveries. It is a spectacular
meteorite, it is not $3 million dollars.
Michael Farmer
Sent from
LOL! Hold the Jalapenos and definitely lose the ketchup, if that is ketchup. If
it's a good hot sauce it might be acceptable ;) Is that meteorite skillet a
side or just for presentation?
Bill
To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
From: mexicod...@aim.com
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011
My antivirus says this is an attack page.
Stuart McDaniel
Lawndale, NC
Secretary,
Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
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Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 12:02 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] I Did It!
Here is
Hi Michael:
The only thing that I would disagree with in the article has to do with
where Lutetia formed. It has a fairly low inclination and low eccentricity
(for a main belt asteroid), so I doubt there is any way that it could have
formed in the inner part of the Solar System and found its way
Hi Abe,
You were correct in finally using a soft stainless steel brush. The greyish
brown color is probably as close as your going to get after laying a little
gold on the rock. If your just wanting to make it look nice and not going to
study it, I would immerse this stone meteorite in 90%
Michael All,
As indicated before, we're as disappointed in the sensationalism that hit
the wire with this article as anyone, as if any of us knew about it prior,
it obviously could have been prevented.
Diana Lutz, the WUSTL writer of the first article that started the mess,
however, actually
Hello Listers and Listerites
Today is another POP QUIZ FRIDAY installment
The name of the GAME. Be the 7th Lister ( 7 is a lucky number for a lot of
people) to email me off List with the correct answer and you will win a free
ALMAHATA SITTA micro LOT, papers included.
Question:
What is
http://swri.org/9what/releases/2011/giant-planet.htm
Giant planet ejected from the solar system
For immediate release
Boulder, Colo. - Nov. 10, 2011 - Just as an expert chess player
sacrifices a piece to protect the queen, the solar system may have given
up a giant planet and spared the
Hi again,
I would be very wary of using wire brushes to clean a meteorite that
has an obvious black fusion crust hidden underneath. I have a 12kg
xxxNWA that was covered in white caliche which I cleaned chemically,
painstakingly bit by bit, neutralizing the acid every cm or so to stop
any soaking
Hi Dave and List,
The title of your post gave me a good chuckle - quite punny and
definitely appropriate.
Nobody would blame Dr. Korotev for that mess of an article. Although,
I think this entire affair can be laid to rest if some billionaire (or
lotto winner) would simply step forward and take
Thanks very much to the comments and replies. I am new to meteorite
collecting and therefore have minimal knowledge about classifying them.
Given the heavy weight for its size I thought it was a heavy iron.
To clarify, I made absolutely sure to use the softest wire brush from my
dremel tool set
Hi Count,
I will do this tomorrow and post the results.
I couldn't find your picture of the day you mentioned but do you mean this one?
http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/test/52752_5909.jpg
Thanks for the advice.
Abe Guenther
-Original Message-
From: Count Deiro
Hi Listees,
Let me state now, at the start, this post is SILLY. If you are
aggravated or offended by meteorite-related silliness on this List,
then stop reading and delete this post now.
Ok, you were warned.
Tomorrow is my birthday (41 going on 16) and I have indulged in a rare
pleasure - a
Happy Birthday, Mike!
I've no suggestions for what you should smash, but do have another
suggestion. Since this involves your climbing onto the roof of your house,
please lay off the Maker's Mark (or any such similarly intoxicating
substance) for at least one day prior to doing this.
One
Mike G wrote: I have only seen photos, but if I was presented with a slice
of each in a blind taste test, I would be at a loss to tell one from the
other.
Actually, you wouldn't. What's missing is scale, and the Conception
Junction crystals are substantially smaller than Brenham (or just about
Hi Larry and all,
Without knowing what research has been done studying Lutetia, if memory
serves me right, don't they take into account the regolith on the surface of
an asteroid and adjust the spectra so it more closely matches clean
meteorite specimens that we have? Thought this may have not
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