[meteorite-list] AWESOME NEW FALL

From: dean bessey <deanbessey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:26 2004
Message-ID: <LAW2-F20uhgEKD5b5W70000c2a4_at_hotmail.com>

Looks like I goofed about what I thought that my meteorites that I showed a
photo of to everybody yesterday was. I got about 5 kilos of new meteorites
a couple days ago and those two killer looking meteorites looked similar to
a very unusual eucrite that I saw a while back and I suspected that they
were paired but at the time I never had one to compare mine to. But today I
got to compare my new meteorite to the eucrite and the broken surface indeed
does look almost identical, the same whitish/greyesh colour, and similar
shock veins and large for its size which probably means low metal content.
But the crust on mine was nicer and fresher (My two meteorites looks like
they fell yesterday) and the magnetic qualities of mine is slightly more
than the eucrite (My powerful rare earth magnets will stick to it but if you
wiggle the meteorite a little they fall off so my meteorite is a bit
magnetic but only lightly). There are gold coloured inclusions on it to that
is in my opinion very unusual.
I felt bad about wanting to cut them to see the cut surface because they are
just so nice whole.
After talking to my partners in Morocco earlier today I have finally figured
out what I have here. I dont know the classification or anything but there
is a reason why my two meteorites look like they fell yesterday. They
basically did. There was a new fall in Morocco a few weeks ago and this
meteorite is a part of it. I guess that it could be a LL given the magnetic
qualities but I have never seen a LL with this colour and it doesnt apear to
have chrondrules sticking out and it has those gold inclusions. But I guess
that it could be a LL, Eucrite or anything else until it gets classified.
What it is is now anybodys guess.
Either way, this is one killer looking meteorite. I love these two
meteorites to death.
Looks like my webpage crashed for a while today but my photos are working
again now. See here:
http://www.meteoriteshop.com/MAR-NWA.htm
This is a great meteorite fall and I will give more details as I get them.
Hope that somebody likes my photos anyway.
Cheers
DEAN
www.meteoriteshop.com






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