[meteorite-list] stinky meteorite

A while back I was dry cutting (slowly with a thin low-density diamond blade) a piece of Indarch, which produced a rather disagreeable odour. I put the smell down to the reaction of the finely powdered air- sensitive minerals such as oldhamite and niningerite with the moisture in the air.

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This meteorite could have come from a rock cairn... Maybe a dog used a rock cairn as a rest stop. A nomad meteorite hunter could have come along searching for meteorites and there you have it! ;) Regards, Eric Pete Shugar wrote: Maybe it was a camel in the desert or the rider!!! Pete

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Maybe it was a camel in the desert or the rider!!! Pete - Original Message - From: "Meteorites USA" To: Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 6:49 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Stinky Meteorite Hi List, Don't laugh! This is weird... While slicing some unclass

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p"...). Greg - Original Message - From: "Joe Kerchner" To: "meteorite list" Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 7:58 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Stinky Meteorite Eric, Does the matrix look normal or could it be a carb chondrite? I have heard of some

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ottingham > http://stores.ebay.com/voyage-botanica-natural-history > > > > > On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Greg Catterton wrote: > >> >> Perhaps its the first "Urineite"... >> I have had a few that had a rotten egg like smell, but never urine. >&g

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2009 8:23:54 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stinky Meteorite Hello, In the early days when Mike Farmer and I where bringing over the very first batches of NWA's, I believe it was NWA 96? or NWA 90 something, somewhere around that number, we had one that upon cutting smelled like "C

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-up"...). Greg - Original Message - From: "Joe Kerchner" To: "meteorite list" Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 7:58 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Stinky Meteorite Eric, Does the matrix look normal or could it be a carb chondrite? I have heard of some CC'

Re: [meteorite-list] Stinky Meteorite + Photos

LOL! Yeah... Neither have I... Urineite! Cool word... Thinking that maybe a camel or dog peed on it. ;) lol It seriously stinks! Really there's no describing the awful smell... Regards, Eric P.S. For those of you who haven't seen it here's the photos... http://www.meteoritesusa.com/images/odd

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natural-history On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Greg Catterton wrote: Perhaps its the first "Urineite"... I have had a few that had a rotten egg like smell, but never urine. Greg C. --- On Sat, 6/20/09, Meteorites USA wrote: From: Meteorites USA Subject: [meteorite-list] Stinky Mete

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Photos of stinky meteorite... http://www.meteoritesusa.com/images/odd/unwa-31-0g-a.jpg http://www.meteoritesusa.com/images/odd/unwa-31-0g.jpg Joe Kerchner wrote: Eric, Does the matrix look normal or could it be a carb chondrite? I have heard of some CC's that have unusual smells. could y

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Perhaps its the first "Urineite"... I have had a few that had a rotten egg like smell, but never urine. Greg C. --- On Sat, 6/20/09, Meteorites USA wrote: > From: Meteorites USA > Subject: [meteorite-list] Stinky Meteorite > To: "meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.c

[meteorite-list] Stinky Meteorite

entral.com" Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 6:49:31 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Stinky Meteorite Hi List, Don't laugh! This is weird... While slicing some unclassified chondrite meteorites I noticed one meteorite that was particularly odoriferous. I don't really want to say "

[meteorite-list] Stinky Meteorite

Hi List, Don't laugh! This is weird... While slicing some unclassified chondrite meteorites I noticed one meteorite that was particularly odoriferous. I don't really want to say "what" this piece smells like as I don't know if it's appropriate list content. Let's just say that dogs lift their