[meteorite-list] Metal-Rich diogenite-Dazed and Confused

From: j.divelbiss_at_att.net <j.divelbiss_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:20:57 2004
Message-ID: <20030702113201.7FB0E53637_at_pairlist.net>

Mike, Adam and others,

Let's see if I've got this straight?

We started off with Mesosiderites and Diogenites. Now we have Mesosiderites,
Eucrite-rich Mesosiderites, possibly (not sure)Diogenite-rich Mesosiderites,
extra-Metal rich Mesosiderites, Olivine-rich Mesosiderites to plain-old
Diogenites including white(Bilanga) and green(Tatahouine) ones...and now we
can have a Metal-rich Diogenite that looks like a Mesosiderite, and an Olivine-
rich Diogenite without an official name that is not a Diogenite. I've got to
lay down...I'm dizzy.

As one of my professors once said, "the more we learn, the dumber we get". It
looks like that is the case for these two areas of meteoritics.

...in the Twilight Zone.

John
> People, this is the most amazing and stunningly beautiful meteorite I have seen
> come out of NWA other than NWA482.
> In any other circumstance, it would sell for likely several hundred dollars per
> gram.
> I have just loaded some killer little pieces on my website, for $25.00 gram,
> still a super low price, but more in line with the value of this material.
> This meteorite will have the world talking, an achondrite, iron impactor, so
> beautiful.
>
> Mike Farmer
> http://www.meteoriteguy.com/nwa1827.htm
>
Received on Wed 02 Jul 2003 07:31:59 AM PDT