[meteorite-list] nwa869

From: Matteo Chinellato <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:00:05 2004
Message-ID: <20020706060334.83542.qmail_at_web10303.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello all

Sorry but I have a new classification for this type of
chondrite from the pieces I have sent for analysis, is
L3/4.4
Regards

Matteo

--- dean bessey <deanbessey_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Does anyone know the tkw for nwa869?
> >Thanks,
> >Rex
> I had just over 500 kilos and I have another 70
> kilos in morocco so I went
> through around 600 kilos of NWA869 myself. I have 50
> or 60 kilos here now
> and so I still have well over 100 kilos from the
> original 600 that I
> originally had. Other dealers have more including
> some that are obviously
> from the same fall but sold as something different
> because of a belief that
> some samples are much better than the L5
> classification that will appear in
> the meteoritical bulletin. The inclusion like things
> are fairly rare so I
> can see it being missed during classification if the
> sample that was used to
> make the thin section never had one of the
> inclusions. Look at this photo:
> http://www.meteoriteshop.com/aa-nwa869b.jpg
> The bottom half is typical NWA869 but the top part
> looks like a totally
> different meteorite. This one dont show it but many
> samples have what appear
> to be black or whitish inclusions.
> I am going travelling next week but I can send a
> kilo of uncut specimens to
> anybody who paypals me $200 over the weekend. For
> $230 I will cut the kilo
> of specimens in two or for $300 a kilo I will cut
> you 40 to 60 gram (On
> Average) slices (And of course the two endpieces per
> stone). No guarantees
> of anything unusual but I will send you a photo of
> the uncut specimens as
> they looked before I cut them so that I cant cherry
> pick them and decide
> after I cut them which ones to send you - so you
> would have as much a chance
> to get the inclusion looking things as if you cut
> them yourself.
> Just paypal me if you want them as I have plenty to
> fill any orders. I will
> cover postage to the US (which cost $11) but other
> countries add $15 for
> postage (Which cost about $26 to $28 so I am getting
> the same price no
> matter where they are being sent)
> Cheers
> DEAN
>
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Received on Sat 06 Jul 2002 02:03:34 AM PDT