[meteorite-list] Inclusion in meteorite

2009-08-26 Thread bernd . pauli
Hi Greg St. and List, What does it look like under a microscope? If you can see cleavages at 90° it's probably a (weathered) pyroxene (fragment), otherwise it might be a fragment of an oxidized olivine crystal. Fred Beroud's Açfer 336 (L3.8; S3; W3) has a few of these conspicuous orange chondrule

[meteorite-list] Inclusion in Meteorite

2009-08-26 Thread Greg Stanley
List: I recently acquired an unclass NWA and after cutting it, I not only found a nice 5 mm chondrule but an odd orange brown inclusion. It almost looks like a fossil shell - triangular in shape; I know it's not. It is also outlined with black. Take a look. http://www.flickr.com/photos