[meteorite-list] CAI

From: Paul Dudley <pdudley_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:02 2004
Message-ID: <001601c1b113$6fe8b060$1f8669d1_at_eznet.net>

Could be the mineral magnesite (magnesium carbonate). Magnesite is a white
mineral that can be formed from the weathering of olivine.

--Paul
>
> It happened that I found few new meteorites recently and that, having cut
> them into slices for analyses i discovered some white clasts inside what
> seems to be a weathered chondrite. It does not look like a terrestrial
> contamination into cracks and I was wondering if it could be a CAI.
>
Received on Fri 08 Feb 2002 09:42:36 PM PST