Re: Oops ---Re: [meteorite-list] Hajar al-Aswad/ black stone of Mecca

2005-09-13 Thread ted brattstrom
Aloha Eric and all - good point - and - luckily I have a slight clue - they were cleaning other parts of the Suleymaniye Mosque, which had turned quite grey - I saw them spraying water/liquid over dark regions, and nearby regions had gone back to light color. So, it is quite possible that they

Oops ---Re: [meteorite-list] Hajar al-Aswad/ black stone of Mecca

2005-09-12 Thread ted brattstrom
messed up the link!!! sorry http://www.k12.hi.us/~tbrattst/Blackstone/hajar-al-aswad.htm That should work ted --- ted brattstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha, Norm sent off this message ages ago, and, as I was going to Istanbul, I put it on my To Do list… Quick answer: I wasn’t

Re: Oops ---Re: [meteorite-list] Hajar al-Aswad/ black stone of Mecca

2005-09-12 Thread star-bits
Ted the photos are really pretty good. If I had to make a guess I would say that the piece at the tomb of Suleyman the Magnificent is not a meteorite. That guess is based solely on the complete lack of any staining on the marble below the piece. After such a long period of time in the