[meteorite-list] Korra Korrabes

From: j.divelbiss_at_att.net <j.divelbiss_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:27:47 2004
Message-ID: <111320030204.28537.14a8_at_att.net>

Oxidation and overall weathering/life on earth kind of thing I would suspect
makes this meteorite hard to inspect for evidence. A fresh cut face would be
the best you could do in a hand sample...or obviously looking at a thin
section would be ideal way to see chondrules(shape and numbers) in the H3
realm.

Someone was selling them on ebay this summer/fall I believe. "refamat" was it?

JD
> Hi,
>
> Last night Mark Ford and I and an enjoyable evening going thru his new
> acquisitions - the one that caused the most confusion was the Korra Korrabes
> specimen - an H3.
>
> Well, we looked at it, compared it to other H3s, also to the Ghubara, and we
> found it difficult to see how this is an H3.
>
> We are obviously missing a critical issue here, because the chondrules were
> scant, and indistinct, in fact my Ghub, at an L6 had more structure visible.
> It was a very dark matrix too, whereas a lot of H3s have a light matrix (ie
> Parnallee)
>
> How and why is KK an H3 - the native iron was sparse, and the chondrules
> largely invisible.
>
> So, how come it's an H3?
>
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> inquisitively,
>
> Dave
>
> IMCA #0092
>
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Received on Wed 12 Nov 2003 09:04:46 PM PST