[meteorite-list] Rumuruti 5- It's alive!

From: Chauncey Walden <clwaldeniii_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:41 2004
Message-ID: <3EC96817.FF324C56_at_attbi.com>

Hi Howard,
I was just browsing through the Metsoc Bulletins and came up with this
on NWA R5's:
NWA 830 55gm; NWA 1585 77gm; NWA 1668 710gm and
an R4/5 NWA 1784 184gm
Chauncey

Howard Wu wrote:
>
> Hello List,
>
> I've been trying to get straight what information is available on R5
> meteorites. This week Mike Farmer offered on ebay a small .4g piece of
> "NWA 1585" which he said there's about a kilo TKW. He also made claim
> that this was the only R5 available to the collecting public. Early
> this year I bought a slice of a "NWA 1585" from Dean Bessey of which
> he said was the only known R5 but claimed a TKW of 26.5grams. So if
> there's a kilo of this meteorite around I'd like to know.
>
> Then at Tuscon I meet Blaine Reed who had an R5 named " NWA1668" with
> a TKW of about 700gms. Ok, I thought that this is even newer. I
> recently found a posting of this on " A Systemic Classification of
> Meteorite" site.
> (http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9278/systemat.htm ) Here is
> listed four R5's. There is nothing searchable on "NWA1585." Now I'm
> thinking I and everybody else is just catching up to these new
> finds. But all new facts are not in agreement or there is too
> little information available for me to know what really is what with
> this rare classification.
>
> I've writen to both Mike and Dean and had conversations with Blaine
> about this. Mike thinks this is a pairing though my two specimens
> look quite different. Dean is in disagreement based on these
> differences. Blaine hadn't heard of NWA 1585 till I told him about it.
> Dean and Mike hadn't heard of NWA 1668 till I brought this up.
>
> I don't wish to start another food fight on line, but would like to
> hear others knowledgable opinion on this meteoritic type. Does anyone
> else wish to weigh in on this one?
>
> Howard Wu
>
>
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Received on Mon 19 May 2003 07:26:15 PM PDT