[meteorite-list] Correlation of Fa & Fs for ordinary chondrites

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:29:52 2004
Message-ID: <20030908055948.48002.qmail_at_web80506.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello Rob,

Thank you for sharing this "correlation" formula.
Not only is this of interest to me, but others may
find this of some use in pairing meteorites.

Just wanted to let you know that your time and effort
was appreciated. Can you remind me where we first
heard that there was an actual numerical correlation?
If it turns out that this is a little known or poorly
understood relationship, then I really do think you
should write a paper, or at least, an abstract and see
how it is received.

Hopefully, you will get some replies from the
petrologists that are subscribed to this List.

And you were right, as well, about the desert. It hit
105 degrees at some of the areas where I was this
weekend.

With best regards,
Bob V.

------------------ Original Message ------------------
[meteorite-list] Correlation of Fa & Fs for ordinary
chondrites
Matson, Robert ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_saic.com
Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:02:02 -0700

Hi All,

I decided it was still too hot to go to the desert
this weekend, so instead I spent the better part of
today on a problem I've been meaning to tackle for a
few months. Hopefully my results will be useful to
someone here. I don't know if the work is quite
worthy
of a paper -- perhaps.

++++++++++

(I have corresponding equations for going in the
reverse direction.
I also computed the linear coefficients by petrologic
grade if that interests anyone).

When you consider that most of the Antarctic Fa and Fs
values were given to the nearest whole number
percentage, I'd say the fit is quite good.

Cheers,
Rob





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Received on Mon 08 Sep 2003 01:59:48 AM PDT