[meteorite-list] Canadian Meteorite party
From: tett <tett_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:44:36 2004 Message-ID: <3AA2E44D.157F3DF9_at_bmts.com> > Hello List, > > Some of us Canadians did indeed have an incredible meteorite party > yesterday. > > Thanks Laurie and Roman for being such gracious hosts and for putting > this party > together. It was great to have the party at their house among Roman's > collection which is truly awesome. > > Dean Bessey was there with fantastic deals on Moroccan meteorites. > Boxes full > of stuff with surprisingly beautiful samples. Dean also showed off some > great > stuff that was gleaned from these Moroccan samples. A softball sized > individual > chondrite that is chalked full of carbonaceous inclusions. Some nice > LL's, a > CO3, lots of the rare stuff too numerous to mention. Also in his > assortment > were chondrites with incredible flight markings and orientations. Dean > also > brought some great fossils and besides the meteorites I purchased from > him I > took home a 10" trilobite for my 11 year old son. > > Many of the guests showed up with their private collections and I was > amazed at > what people had brought to the party. Of course, Canadian meteorites > were > desirable among the group and we saw incredible pieces of Springwater, > Manitawabing and others. I was thrilled to show my slice of Red Deer > Hill. > > We were also pleased to see three staff members from the Royal Ontario > Museum > (ROM) show up with some Holy Grails of Canadian meteorites. Half of the > Giroux > pallasite, a gorgeous St. Robert individual, a nice slice of Osseo and > others. > Wow! what a treat. > > During the party David Andrews showed up and shared some of his > treasures. One > of the ROM staff mentioned to me that David has the midas touch when > finding > meteorites and I soon found out why. First he showed and incredible > individual > CR2 (~200 grams at least) which had the most gorgeous chondrule > definition I > have ever seen. He then goes out to his car and comes back with > beautiful LL3 > samples and impact melt specimens. Again he went out and came back with > a flat > flight orientated L3 (I believe) with gorgeous flow lines. Yet again he > went to > his car and came back with a 6+Kg. show stopper. This meteorite is > currently > being classified at UCLA (with many others from David) and initial > analysis > shows that it is an impact melt with cm wide metal veins. immediatly I > thought > of Portales but with impact melt instead of ordinary chordate in the > stony part. > > David would keep on going to his car and return with other beauties. We > began > making jokes that he was finding them under his seat. I should pass > along kudos > to David for being a ROM benefactor. He has donated many rare > meteorites to the > ROM and much of what we saw yesterday will end up in their hands. > > Yesterday I was like a kid in a candy shop. Incredible meteorites, > great food > and conversation and tons of fun. Hopefully some pics will be posted > soon. > > As a group we have decided to do this twice a year. Our next gathering > will be > about a month after the Denver show. All are welcome and we will post > information about this get together later on. > > Cheers, > > Tett > > _______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Sun 04 Mar 2001 07:56:45 PM PST |
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