[meteorite-list] Just curious

From: Rosemary Hackney <ltcrose_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:53:37 2004
Message-ID: <000901c2ad37$6b5c1ac0$0c77d6d1_at_default>

ok.. I have Bencubbin.. Weatherford. and HaH 237... what is the
classification now? I thought they were Bencubbinites

Rosie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Pauli HD" <bernd.pauli_at_lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: "Michael Farmer" <farmerm_at_concentric.net>
Cc: "wrecks463" <wrecks463_at_cox.net>; <Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Just curious


> Rex wondered:
>
> > The Cambridge EOM says that this is a meso-
> > siderite while this guy on ebay says it is
> > a metal-rich carbonaceous chondrite?
>
> Michael Farmer responded:
>
> > It is a Bencubbinite, VERY rare carbonaceous metal-rich
> > chondrite. Unlike any other meteorite, small balls of metal.
>
> Rex, which part/page/chapter of the CEM are you referring to?
> On page 159, Fig.8.19, O.R. Norton says that Bencubbin, not
> Gujba (!), is a mesosiderite from Western Australia, but he
> also cautions: "This anomalous meteorite may be a new class
> of mesosiderite". The first descriptions of Gujba in 1988 also
> classified it as a mesosiderite [ISLAM M.R., OSTAFICZUK S.
> (1988) The Gujba mesosiderite: its petrology, mineralogy and
> impact (Annals of Borno 5, 110-124)] but in 2001, Bencubbin,
> Gujba, HaH 237, QUE 94411, QUE 94627 and Weatherford were
> assigned a new, separate group:
>
> WEISBERG M.K. et al. (2001) A new metal-rich chondrite
> grouplet - CB chondrites (MAPS 36-3, 2001, pp. 401-418).
>
> Best regards and
> a Happy New Year
> to All of Us,
>
> Bernd
>
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