[meteorite-list] Meteorwrong opinion
From: Matson, Robert <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:30 2004 Message-ID: <AF564D2B9D91D411B9FE00508BF1C8698E5AF6_at_US-Torrance.mail.saic.com> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1CF75.70C6BB00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Ken, > Here is her story, > "I picked this up in country New South Wales in a National Park Wilderness area. > It is unlike any surrounding rocks or any that I have seen in that district. ... > The area is mostly volcanic basalt overlying granidiorite and some granitic areas. > This may be terrestrial iron, but if so, it perhaps may have become airborne from > the volcano?, as it is oriented and has a rollover lip. It is heavier than other rocks > of similar size, but not considerably so, (125 gms), and it is slightly magnetic, > but not considerably so. Only "slightly magnetic", and density is far too low to be iron. Therefore definitely hematite. It will streak blood red. --Rob ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1CF75.70C6BB00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3315.2870" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002>Hi Ken,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002>> Here is her story, <BR>> "I picked this up in country New South Wales in a National Park Wilderness area.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002>> It is unlike any surrounding rocks or any that I have seen in that district. ...</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002>> The area is mostly volcanic basalt overlying granidiorite and some granitic areas.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002>> This may be terrestrial iron, but if so, it perhaps may have become airborne from</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002>> the volcano?, as it is oriented and has a rollover lip. It is heavier than other rocks</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002>> of similar size, but not considerably so, (125 gms), and it is slightly magnetic,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002>> but not considerably so.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002>Only "slightly magnetic", and density is far too low to be iron. Therefore definitely</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002>hematite. It will streak blood red.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=617264518-19032002>--Rob</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1CF75.70C6BB00-- Received on Tue 19 Mar 2002 01:39:45 PM PST |
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