[meteorite-list] PURTARANO

From: Kevin Fly Hill <khill_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:29:54 2004
Message-ID: <006601c37976$ec08b000$6d00a8c0_at_coxinternet.com>

If you could study the geology of the area/site from which Putarana is
derived would it not shine some light on how stony meteorites (meteors for
the ones still circling) formed?
Fly Hill


----- Original Message -----
From: <j.divelbiss_at_att.net>
To: "Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!" <steve_arnol60120_at_yahoo.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] PURTARANO


> Steve and others,
>
> A few months ago I posted a thread to the list that basically said that
while
> the Putorana looks like a mesosiderite...that when I compared it to Vaca
> Muerta in thin section, they look nothing alike at all. Plain and simple
the
> Putorana looks like the basalt that it has been identified as.
>
> My question to others is "why did it take so long to figure that out when
it
> seems so obvious to a novice like me...in thin section?".
>
> Are there other mesosiderites that look like basalt in thin section? If
so,
> which ones? If not...were the researchers considering it to be a new type?
>
> Also noteworthy is that Ivan (finmet) is selling Putorana again, and his
> description is alluding to it being considered to be extraterrestrial
again,
> because in his/others words...such a rock cannot exist on earth (native
iron
> separated within a rock). Does anyone know what is going on with the
research
> of this material. Is it really being considered to from out of this world
> again?
>
> Putorana sure looks like basalt to me...and it does not like any eucrite
or
> diogentite that I've seen in thin section...which are the known rock parts
of
> mesosiderites.
>
> Puzzled again,
>
> John
> > Wow what a beautiful piece of earth rock.It is so hard to believe that
> > this is not a meteorite, in stead of meteorwrong.I want to thank matt
> > morgan for letting me purchase a piece of PURTARANO.I just got a 219
gram
> > slice.This thing is gorgeous.It looks so much like a stony iron.It looks
> > alot like morristown.Thanks again to matt for letting me have this great
> > looking slice.
> >
> > steve arnold
> >
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