RE: [meteorite-list] Ghubara...

2006-11-08 Thread mark ford
Yes I agree there!, Ghubara is probably the perfect meteorite, a good combination of 'cheap and clean'. One of my slices has been perfectly 'flat mirror polished' and even looks just like the black obelisk in the film '2001 a space odessey!! (frankly it scares me every time I look at it :)

Re: [meteorite-list] Ghubara

2006-11-06 Thread edward moore
I have a 300+ gram end slice of Ghubara that I got many years ago. It " sweats" etc but then I live in Maine, about 1/2 mile from the coast, so the salt air does it no good.   Ed[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Berndt and list,I too would like to come to the defense of Ghubara. I have two beautifu

Re: [meteorite-list] Ghubara

2006-11-06 Thread jbaxter112
Hello Berndt and list, I too would like to come to the defense of Ghubara. I have two beautiful and fascinating Ghubara slices which show two lithologies and which are quite stable over several years( though I do store and display my specimens at a low relative humidity). It seems that there is c

Re: [meteorite-list] Ghubara

2006-11-06 Thread Matt Morgan
Some do ooze. However, I have a piece I acquired about 10 years ago from the Museum of Natural History-London...still clean as the day I received it. It is probably the humidity of certain areas is what is causing it to bleed. Ghubara is not the only one; I've owned/sold several meteorites from

RE: [meteorite-list] Ghubara

2006-11-06 Thread harlan trammell
they sweat and ooz liquid i will be gradually switching over to yahoo mail (it has 100 FREE megs of storage). please cc to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Floyd \"Griff\" Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: "Floyd \"Griff\" Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "meteorite-list" Subject: [meteorite-list]

Re: [meteorite-list] ghubara bleeding

2006-10-28 Thread Dave Carothers
Steve, See meteorite-list archives for 21 May 2002 and 31 December 2002. Dave - Original Message - From: "steve arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 8:11 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] ghubara bleeding > Hi list and good morning.What causes ghubara to > blee

Re: [meteorite-list] Ghubara?

2002-09-27 Thread Impactika
In a message dated 9/27/2002 9:11:32 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello List, Ghubara seems to be an interesting meteorite but is not mentioned in either of Nortons books under the name Ghubara. Is there like a NWA # or some thing this meteorite goes bye? Listed in "Mete

Re: [meteorite-list] Ghubara L5 Chondrite

2002-09-04 Thread Bernd Pauli HD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the total known weight of the Ghubara L5 > chondrite? Look forward to hearing from everyone. Hello Greg and List, Presently the TKW is about 445.81 kg because a 300 kg was recently found. Reference: FERKO T.E. et al. (2001) The complex irradiation history of