[meteorite-list] Soledade etch, check this out!

From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Oct 11 17:07:18 2004
Message-ID: <008101c4afd6$46c0d040$0200a8c0_at_S0031628003>

Martin, re-read my email. There is no problem, I did not say Matteo's email
was stupid.
I did say that it does not look like Odessa, and I have many pieces of
Odessa.
Mike Farmer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Altmann" <Altmann_at_Meteorite-Martin.de>
To: <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Soledade etch, check this out!


> Hi Bernd and Mike,
>
> to me it's looking just as typical IAB-iron should look alike.
> It's not only looking like Odessa, it's looking like Morasko (which was an
> IAB before and many can't find a reason, why it's now a IIICD) and even in
> a
> very, very few Canyons you can find such nice cohenite wormlets parallelly
> oriented to the Widmannst?tter patterns.
> Thus Matteos observations were not so stupid.
> Cohenite and troilite eyes rimmed with schreibersite, cohenite and
> graphite
> are most often found in Odessa (and somewhat rarer in Morasko, but this
> has
> more often Neumann lines).
>
> So where is the problem? Just another pretty IAB.
> Martin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de>
> To: <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 10:25 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Soledade etch, check this out!
>
>
>> Mike wrote:
>>
>> > http://www.meteoritehunter.com/
>>
>> > Matteo emailed me and told me that he thinks this meteorite
>> > is Odessa! Does anyone who sees this think that this is Odessa?
>>
>> Although I must admit that this was also my first thought when I saw
>> the first pics on Mike's sales page, there are two arguments against
>> such an assumption:
>>
>> 1) Analysis data:
>>
>> Odessa: 7.25 % Ni, 7.24 % Ni, 8.73 %Ni, 7.2 % Ni
>> 74.7 ppm. Ga, 285 ppm. Ge, 2.2 ppm. Ir
>>
>> Soledade: 6.7 % Ni, 98.5 ppm. Ga, 420 ppm. Ge, 3.90 ppm. Ir
>>
>> 2) ZUCOLOTTO M.E. (1999) Brazilian Meteorites
>> (Meteorite!, Aug 1999, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 9-10):
>>
>> "The inside color of Soledade was a little bit brighter than other
> siderites".
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Bernd
>>
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