Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Unclassified NWA
Contributed by: Anne Black
http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp
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Lunar Rocks Are First Direct Evidence of Collision
That Formed Moon, National eographic, June 6, 2014.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/06/140605-earth-moon-theia-evidence-space-science/
Body that formed the Moon came from a different
neighborhood. (The body that smacked into Earth
I wouldn't get too excited about this. Lots of enstatite meteorites
(chondrites and achondrites) are melt rocks and melt breccias, and
they've been described for decades by Alan Rubin and others, e.g.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703796003353
Hi Jeff and List,
I'm not excited, just curious. Since it's a joint NIPR-Belgian
meteorite find, it will never show up on the private market anyway. I
was waiting for Jeff to chime in on this one and clarify the apparent
new class. With the sample being so small, and with the differences
Hi Bulletin Watchers,
There are 27 new approvals. Many are from the NWA DCA, but there are
also some from other localities around the world. There are several
achondrites, 3 irons, and other interesting classifications.
Link -
Hi Greg,
This reminds me of that photo you posted a while back of a police
officer pepper-spraying the classification in the Bulletin. LOL.
If memory serves me correctly (and I could be terribly wrong), the
lack of correction for Al-Haggounia had something to do with the
original classifying
Dear List Members
I have a beauty large Zaklodzie 110.8g slice available for trade (send me offer
for trade piece) or sale. Zaklodzie represent very rare achondrite group.
Slice is amazing polished in both sides, with very huge surface area.
Photos
Hi List,
Just 2 different meteorites this week.
http://www.meteoriteusa.com/saturdaysale.htm
Sub gram part slices of the D'Orbigny angrite. The are from larger
thin slices prepared by Marlin Cilz.
and
A 2.33 gram Murchison CM2 piece with nice fusion crust.
Last week I didn't get much
Good one Greg!
Roman's Mobile.
On 2014-06-07, at 3:20 PM, Greg Hupé via Meteorite-list
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote:
Hi Mike,
Good memory.. Yes, The 'meteorite cop' is still walking the beat...
http://www.naturesvault.net/Images/AlHaggounia/AlHagg-OfficialCorrection.jpg
List,
NJ MA Meteor Approx 2205 EDT 07JUN2014
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/06/nj-ma-meteor-07jun2014.html
Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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