[meteorite-list] Re: Taza an Glorieta Mountain Ni contents

From: Matt Morgan <mmorgan_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:29 2004
Message-ID: <3F8DA5C1.7050402_at_mhmeteorites.com>

Taza is 16.3% Ni and I think the Germanium content is extremely high at
0.2% or thereabouts. Pretty unusual iron.

Matt

Steve Schoner wrote:

> Humm...
>
> Did not look it up. I was not sure; relied on my sometimes defective
> memory, and for some reason I thought that Taza was 6 %. But if it is
> the other way around 16% plus, then the difference is still evident with
> the right testing. And I don't think an etch pattern will be the same.
>
> Glorieta is as I read somewhere a tad under 10%... but that probably was
> from a small piece and variations can exist in this meteorite.
>
> A high Ni content could explain why both meteorites still have fusion crust.
>
> Anyway thanks for the correction.
>
> Steve Schoner/ams
> http://www.geocities.com/american_meteorite_survey
>
>
> bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> > the Ni content for Glorieta is just a tad
> > under 11% whereas as Taza is lower.
>
> Not quite sure about this. Taza is described
> as very rich in nickel (over 16%), whereas
> you find 11.92 % Ni for Glorieta in Buchwald.
>
> References:
>
> BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of
> Iron Meteorites, Vol. 2, pp. 597-601.
>
> BREY S. (2001) Taza (Meteorite, Nov. 2001,
> Vol. 7, No. 4, p. 5).
>
> Meteoritical Bulletin #86, 2002.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bernd
>
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Received on Wed 15 Oct 2003 03:53:37 PM PDT