[meteorite-list] Meteorites Expeditions

From: Rafael B. Torres <spacecollection2001_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:43 2004
Message-ID: <F10iB5OE7b7Hcpv1vWe0000da7b_at_hotmail.com>

Hello, thats a good way of thinking. I want the meteorite cane just for L or
H meteorites stick to the big magnet. But I also will look with the eye for
other types of meteorites. Unfortunately I dont have any individual
Achondrite, Lunar, martian, etc...I just have slices of them, so I dont know
how they look like in situ, but I have photos. What kind of damage can a
magnet do to a meteorite?...I thought that it might break it, but what I
plan is not stick the meteorite directly to the ground, but above it. I also
have smaller magnets for checking the sample in my hands, thus not harming
the meteorite. Is that what you are telling me?



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Rafael B. Torres
Space Collection 2001
http://www.geocities.com/rafael_blando





>From: rochette <rochette_at_cerege.fr>
>To: "Rafael B. Torres" <spacecollection2001_at_hotmail.com>
>CC: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites Expeditions
>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:45:30 +0100
>
>...... But
> >I have just one question: How do u use the meteorite cane?...
> >
> >I have a big magnet from a floppy disk, small in size, but man its
>powerful.
> >Do I use it to sweep the area with it? or just when a rock looks
> >different?...I have that big magnet attached to a cane, plus smaller
>magnets
> >for checking rocks. How does a meteorite cane works the best?
> >
>Ola Rafael
>
>This is more less a repost from about one year ago: use of strong magnet
>cause irreversible damage to the magnetic memory of a meteorite and
>therefore decreases its scientific interest. Besides if you collect only
>rocks sticking to your "cane" you will get slags but leave on the ground
>almost all rarities: rumurutites, angrites, eucrites,diogenite, howardite,
>martian, lunars, even some LL and CV. If you try to increase magnet power
>to compensate, you may collect terrestrial basalts. So what's the use of
>it, unless you know you are in a L or H strewfield???
>
>
>Pierre
>
>


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