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Re: fossil meteorite

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Subject: Re: fossil meteorite
From: Matt Morgan <mhmeteorites@geocities.com>
Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 13:14:09 -0600
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Bernd Pauli wrote:

> Sicree et al. also report that "more than one dozen Ordovician
> 'paleochondrites' have been recovered from limestone quarries at Brunflo
> and Österplana, Sweden".
> They are thoroughly altered and most of their material has been replaced
> by barite and calcite.
> [Ref.: Thorslund P. et al. (1981) NATURE 289, pp. 285-286 and Nyström
> J.O. et al. (1989) NATURE 336, pp. 572-574].
>

How does he know it is a meteorite then? Severely altered to me, means it
doesn't retain its orginal "meteoritic" characteristics. Please explain if
possible. Thanks!

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