[meteorite-list] First report of a New Fall!

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:18:30 2004
Message-ID: <20030224180052.13434.qmail_at_web10308.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello Mark

If you want I put some photos of my NWA I have here,
have the same desert crust visible in the photo, I not
see the different. El Hammami, Zag, and other
meteorites from desert have a fresh fusion crust and
matrix. If this is a real fall this not have a fresh
crust and the same a matrix. When I have find my
Tessera, some pieces they had the black crust,and for
this had thought that they came from the big bolide
seen it pass 2 first weeks, but the examination to the
isotopes did not given confirmation that this was a
recent fall. I am sorry but this meteorite is not
paired to other recent or old falls in Africa, the
crust in the desert go out after many years, never see
a Bensour with crust weathered after only few months,
is all complete and fresh, the same for Zag, after 1
year the crust is fresh. In this image this is not
visible, is paired to other normaly NWA I have here
and see in many other dealers sites.
Regards


Matteo
 
--- MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_msn.com> wrote:
> Hello Matteo and List,
>
> Matteo wrote: "I have see the photo and is many
> strange this pieces
> not have a fresh crust - type Bensour or Hadeja - if
> is fall few months ago, is many similar to normaly
> NWA
> finds in desert."
>
> Depending on the region of the fall it would not
> surprize me not to see nice
> Bensour like crust on this meteorite. Most of the
> Bensour and Hadeja
> meteorites were picked up within days of fall, July
> 21, 2002 is several
> months and plenty of time for desert wind and sand
> to have stripped most of
> the crust off of many of the meteorites.
>
> Matteo also wrote "However I have asked a piece of
> 10 gr. to observe
> better."
>
> Could you explain what you plan to do to observe it
> better. Since another
> team has made it to the strewn field I am sure we
> will hear more on this
> fall in a short time.
>
> Congradulations on the recovery to Adam and Greg
> Hupe. It is not often we
> see an H4 with a light colored matrix, as it appears
> in the photo.
>
> Mark Bostick


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Received on Mon 24 Feb 2003 01:00:51 PM PST