[meteorite-list] Tagounite L3

From: bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Oct 18 10:26:45 2004
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000002A00002ABC_at_paulinet.de>

Martin wrote a few minutes ago:

> The dealer told me that it was found by two French hunting for
> artefacts in 1999 in the Tagounite region, tkw would be 3kgs
> and that a kind of preclassification was done and that it would
> be an L3.

As for my Tag 019 thin section, I got it from Michael
Blood who wrote to the List back in November 1999:

I was informed yesterday that the "new" meteorite I had been selling,
Tagounite 019, (at first) as "not yet classified" - then later, with a
preliminary classification of L3, has now been definitively classified
as an "LL" with a petrological rating of "3.7".

On Tuesday, 14 Dec 1999, Rob Elliott wrote to the List:

Tagounite 019 has been classified as an LL3.7 though it awaits formal naming
and acceptance by the Meteoritical Society. It was found by a French couple in
April 1999 in Morocco.

"found by two French hunting for artefacts in 1999"
"found by a French couple in April 1999 in Morocco"

Comment : Hmmm?!?!


Best wishes,

Bernd
Received on Mon 18 Oct 2004 10:26:43 AM PDT