[meteorite-list] Southwest Impact Study Yousef

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:35 2004
Message-ID: <3EB70A73.978680E9_at_tkc.att.ne.jp>

Dear List and Mark,
   You can ask Yousef if he wants to purchase your finds. If you search
the list archives you can find his address.
     If you want to do a non-destructive test on your "glass splatter"
use a needle or pin and try to scratch the surface. If it is glass, as
you say, then there will be no scratch, but this will not prove that it
is glass, only that it isn't. Most of your material has been cut and
examined further. If I have time I will send you a photo taken with the
aid of a microscope to show you the mineral "growth" rings of the
manganese. X-ray analysis at this time is still not warranted as it
takes time and money; and the University and myself are not willing to
spend time or money on this project. Another possible experiment you
can try, if you don't have HCL, is to use vinegar and place some of the
gravel calcite matrix in it and you will observe bubbles slowly forming
from the carbonates. Another mineral within your specimens is barite
(barium); this commonly occurs with manganese carbonates.
     This list has many well educated persons that have and will go out
of their way to help most people. This has been demonstrated by others
as well as myself.
Sincerely, Dirk Ross...Tokyo

Mark Jackson wrote:

> Hey I never said I had tekites. I beleive those were found and
> collected 80 miles NNE of here by a gentleman named Nickolai. If you
> want some I might be able to find him. Those nodules were just curious
> to me but I never claimed tekites. Yousef can pay me later for slices
> of this carbonaceous chondrite.
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Received on Mon 05 May 2003 09:05:56 PM PDT