I've been around this so long ,it never occured to to think this was the
result of ground impact, but I understand how it would look that way.
When one thinks about it, All or the SAwe find was shrapnel-form at the
beginning of breakup. Fragments which separated earlier had longer
opportunity
11:08 AM
To: mark ford; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Question on oriented SA shrapnel
Göran, Mark, Jeff, List
here a nice vizualisation of the fragmentation processes of Sikhote.
According to this model,
the pieces of the 3th and 4th fragmentation can't
uot;)
Martinho.
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From: "mark ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:38 AM
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Question on oriented SA shrapnel
Hi Göran,
Yep, I've also got a few sikhote shrapnels with definite flow lines, so mus
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Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 2:20 AM
To: Göran Axelsson; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Question on oriented SA shrapnel
G'day Göran,
My understanding (and I could be wrong here?) was that most Sikhote-Alin
shrapnel was formed when the piece/s deton
ure of the meteorite (coarsest
octahedrite) was no longer able to support it.
Cheers,
Jeff
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From: Göran Axelsson
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Question on oriented SA shrapnel
I was looki
I was looking through some of Michael Farmers auctions on Ebay
and one piece made me puzzled.
It was a 7 kg oriented Sikhote-Alin that had flowlines. I thought that
all the shrapnel pieces were created when larger meteorites impacted
and tore the metal apart.
But flowlines should mean that this sh
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