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RE: Interesting....
Michael,
Thanks for helping me to encourage people to have their Mojave Desert finds
inspected by local labs (I highly recommend UCLA - due to an ongoing study
they are conducting).
I think it is important to inform people that they can have their finds
IMMEDIATELY DETERMINED to be a meteorite or m-wrong upon initial INSPECTION.
Most times this can be accomplished without cutting the specimen, and only
for very weathered finds will a cut surface or a ground down corner be
necessary.
Granted, determining whether the find is H-group or L-group, for example,
will take more time. This can only be properly accomplished through
ANALYSIS of a sample taken from a specimen. But this is a different subject
and shouldn't discourage finders in getting their finds a preliminary
"inspection".
I've looked at your images (a very good job) and must admit that they LOOK
very promising, but it's impossible to know for sure, and that makes trying
to get an identification even more frustrating. We're still faced with the
problem of how to get finds into the hands of EXPERIENCED inspectors for
that "initial" examination.
Thanks again, Michael, and good luck Art,
Bob V.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Blood [mailto:mblood@access1.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 2:00 AM
To: Meteorite Newsletter
Subject: Interesting....
Greetings all list members,
Here is an interesting challenge:
Art, the "list" provider went to 29 Palms recently and found 2
suspected
meteorites. (yes, there is a recorded recovery in the 29 Palms area).
Below are the links to the JPEGs - 3 photos of the 19.1g
specimen and 4
photos of the 43.0g specimen. He brought them over & we looked at them
under the microscope - but as well as being one of the world's worst
meteorite
"hunter"s I am also no great shakes at analysis - I have seen
"meteorwrongs" I was AMAZED were not meteorites & meteorites I would
NEVER have even bothered checking had I come across them "in the field."
So, you guys are invited to check them out and submit opinions to
the
list - could be fun. (I definitely encouraged him to have them analyzed
at an appropriate lab that would not use too much material, as the 19.1g
specimen is none too large already - & is sorta cool looking - but that
will
take months)
Whadda y'all think?:
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19.1g specimen
SEE #1 AT:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=28624&a=167091&p=12421213&Sequence=1
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SEE #2 AT:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=28624&a=167091&p=12421234&Sequence=1
SEE # 3 AT: (This is the best photo of the 19.1g specimen)
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=28624&a=167091&p=12421243&Sequence=1
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43.0g Speciemen
SEE # 1 AT:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=28624&a=167091&p=12421247&Sequence=1
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SEE # 2 AT:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=28624&a=167091&p=12421256&Sequence=1
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SEE # 3 AT:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=28624&a=167091&p=12421271&Sequence=1
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SEE # 4 AT:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=28624&a=167091&p=12421280&Sequence=1
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