Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules, My biggest Chondrule

2005-05-24 Thread Gerald Flaherty
Wow! Let's hear it for stardust! - Original Message - From: "MARK BOSTICK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:19 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules, My biggest Chondrule Hello list, The largest chondrule in my collection (that I am

Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules

2005-05-24 Thread Gerald Flaherty
I for one have been looking for a 10 or 20 gram Saratov without luck? Any one interested? Jerry - Original Message - From: "Martin Altmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochon

Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules/Saratov

2005-05-24 Thread Martin Altmann
PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:40 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules/Saratov > Oddly enough I recently did this with a friable NWA. > > Approximately 100 grams was pulverized, separated, softened with 99% IPA, > dried, and combed over painstakingly with a s

Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules/Saratov

2005-05-24 Thread Martin Altmann
might interested in). Cheers! Martin - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules/Saratov Martin A. wrote: >And the most affordable way to obtain a megachondrule >i

Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules/Saratov

2005-05-24 Thread Rob Wesel
Oddly enough I recently did this with a friable NWA. Approximately 100 grams was pulverized, separated, softened with 99% IPA, dried, and combed over painstakingly with a small paintbrush. Small chunks of matrix are hard to tell apart from the chondrules given the business of all the debris..e

Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules/Saratov

2005-05-24 Thread MexicoDoug
Martin A. wrote: >And the most affordable way to obtain a megachondrule >is to look for a Saratov, which costs at most dealers not >more than 2$/g and as it's very crumbly one can easily >isolate the megachondrules. But start now, to be in time >for Xmas, if you plan to present your girl a ch

Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules, My biggest Chondrule

2005-05-24 Thread bernd . pauli
Hello Mark, Christian, and List, Real "whoppers", ... your macro- or megachondrules! > Another interesting chondrule is present on NWA 081. The > pyroxene seems to flower out from where the chondrule is. > http://www.meteoritearticles.com/colnwa081.html That's a very interesting example. This m

[meteorite-list] Macrochondrules, My biggest Chondrule

2005-05-24 Thread MARK BOSTICK
Hello list, The largest chondrule in my collection (that I am aware of) is 28 x 25 mm. A photograph of it can be viewed here. http://www.meteoritearticles.com/colnwa791.html That chondrule is visible on the outside of the stone, therefore it could or could have been much bigger. Another

Re: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules

2005-05-24 Thread Martin Altmann
artin - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:25 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Macrochondrules An additional post: BRIDGES J.C. et al. (1997) A survey of clasts and large chondrules in ordinary chondrites (Meteoritics 32-3, 1997, 389-394) - So

[meteorite-list] Macrochondrules

2005-05-24 Thread bernd . pauli
An additional post: BRIDGES J.C. et al. (1997) A survey of clasts and large chondrules in ordinary chondrites (Meteoritics 32-3, 1997, 389-394) - Some examples of megachondrules: Parnallee, LL3 - 3 mm Bremervörde, H3 - 4 mm Estacado, H6 - 7 mm and 10mm Barratta, L4 - 8 mm Belle Plaine, L6 - 9