[meteorite-list] Is Shirokovsky a meteorite?

From: Philip R. Burns <pib_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:46 2004
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030529135130.02f48770_at_pibburns.com>

At 02:32 PM 5/29/2003 -0400, you wrote:


>If Shirakovsky is not a meteorite then what is it?
>I don't get it.
>Larry

A good question. An interesting analysis appears at:

         http://www.meteorites.ru/shirokovsky1-e.html

In some ways it appears meteoritic, in other ways it does not. Note the
noble gas component and oxygen isotope composition pointing to a
terrestrial origin.


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Received on Thu 29 May 2003 02:56:52 PM PDT