[meteorite-list] Glassface found the 33rd Mars Rock

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:25 2004
Message-ID: <BC5E6F17.11766%mlblood_at_cox.net>

OK, Mr Smartypants,
        Send me the ORIGINAL site - I obviously went to the "moc"
site.
        Michael


on 2/22/04 2:33 PM, Sharkkb8_at_aol.com at Sharkkb8@aol.com wrote:

> mlblood_at_cox.net writes:
> I don't get it, you guys.... not misleading unless you don't read.....I d=
on't
> get it... =20
> I don't get YOU, Michael ;-) - where here do you read that he's NOT
> selling this stuff as Martian? (You sure you're not just re-reading Joh=
n
> D.'s=20
> retaliatory fake-Martian-auction spoof?!)
>=20
>=20
> NWA Mars Basaltic Achondrite just got here !
>=20
>=20
> "This stone was purchased in Rissani, Morocco, november 2002. Trapped mel=
t
> inclusions in olivine contain Al-pigeonite, Al-diopside, pleonaste and gl=
ass.
> Large opx phenocrysts show preferred orientation; olivine phenocrysts are
> weakly=20
> oriented and tend to occur in clusters. The stone has a 1=AD2 mm weathering
> rind; interior is very fresh. The nomade that sold it to me said he saw i=
t
> while=20
> walking through the desert. Twelve unusual meteorites are almost certainl=
y
> pieces of Mars that were blasted off the red planet by meteoroid impact. =
They
> have been called SNC meteorites after the three type samples, Shergotty,
> Nakhla,=20
> and Chassigny, or now simply martian meteorites. All twelve meteorites ar=
e
> igneous rocks crystallized from lava in the crust of a parent body. They =
are,
> however, distinct from typical igneous meteorites from asteroids in ways =
that
> suggest that the SNC meteorites come from a much larger body, a planet. A=
ll
> but=20
> one of these meteorites are very young (1.3 Ga or less) compared to ancie=
nt
> ages for other igneous meteorites (about 4.5 Ga). They also have higher o=
xygen
> fugacities and contents of water and other volatiles, contain minerals wi=
th
> ferric iron, and form a distinct trend in oxygen isotopic composition. Th=
e
> conclusive evidence that SNC meteorites are from Mars is the analysis of =
gases
> trapped in glass inclusions in EETA79001, which chemically and isotopical=
ly
> match=20
> gases measured in the unique martian atmosphere by the Viking lander
> spacecraft=20
> desert early morning. "
>=20
> Gregory
>=20
> J. Gregory Wilson
> 2118 Wilshire Blvd. #918
> Santa Monica, CA 90403
>=20

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