[meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 7 18:21:30 2005
Message-ID: <009c01c53bc0$226e49e0$6401a8c0_at_Dell>

Grahm, Robert and List,
This has been one of the most refreshing threads I've had the pleasure of
reading lately.
As a rank beginner, I had put away my stooping at every odd looking rock as
more and more(ALL) proved terra!
So now I relearn from the experts that stooping is a good thing for mind,
body and soul.
I'll divert my gaze once more from the possible bolide I may spy in the air,
to the ground where treasures await the blessed!
Thanks for the free instruction.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Christensen" <voltage_at_telus.net>
To: "Robert Verish" <bolidechaser_at_yahoo.com>;
<Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out
there


> Brother Bob, that is a fine specimen of probably exactly what I have and
> I'm glad to see I'm not the only one picking up every odd coloured rock
> and dragging it home. Thanks for showing that.
>
>>"And here is an "in-situ" image showing where I found my green rock"
>
> Haha! If only!
>
> I can probably borrow someone's grinder maybe tomorrow or dig though some
> boxes and find my dremel tool to cut off a piece. I agree that it's hard
> to tell with a rough stone like that. Later this month a professor of
> martian geology at the University of Alberta is taking me on a tour of the
> meteorite collection there so I will take this rock along when I go and
> see what he thinks as well.
>
>>"Wouldn't I be emabarassed if I was wrong, and my "wrong" wasn't?"
>
> Nope, I would imagine that you would be too busy being ecstatic about
> pulling off the impossible...again!
>
> Oh well, all is not lost. I DID find a chunk of garnet today :-) (at least
> I think that's what it is)
> http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter/garnet.jpg
>
> Seeing as how it's 7 AM, I think it's about time I went to bed.
> Goodnight all and happy hunting!
>
> Green rock picker-upper 4 life,
> Graham
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Graham Christensen
> voltage_at_telus.net
> http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter
> msn messenger: majorvoltage_at_hotmail.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Verish" <bolidechaser_at_yahoo.com>
> To: <voltage_at_telus.net>
> Cc: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral"
> <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 6:00 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there
>
>
>> Hello Brother Graham and List,
>>
>> http://marzmeteorite.tripod.com/mars-rocks/2mars1not.jpg
>>
>> As you can tell from the above image, Brother Graham
>> and I belong to the same fraternity - The Fraternal
>> Order of Green Rock Picker-Uppers.
>>
>> And here is an "in-situ" image showing where I found
>> my green rock:
>>
>> http://marzmeteorite.tripod.com/mars-rocks/MRF04996.jpg
>>
>> Actually, Graham, my story is much shorter than yours.
>> I found my little shergo-not just last week, and only
>> a few miles from my backyard. It was still sitting on
>> top of my monitor when I read your message and saw
>> your great looking image. It prompted me to share my
>> image with you. And, as in your image, I placed a
>> small slice of DaG 476 in front of my Mars-wannabe.
>> For added effect, I placed a larger slice of the DaG
>> 670 stone to the right of my m-wrong.
>>
>> As a rule, I don't "hazard a guess" about a rock-type
>> based solely on an image. Too many times I've had to
>> change my opinion about a rock-type after examining a
>> cut surface. So, if you show me the inside of your
>> rock, I'll show you the inside of my rock! ;-)
>>
>> It's true. I haven't cut my little rock, yet. And to
>> be truthful, I haven't had it examined by an "expert",
>> so I can't say with 100% certainty that my rock is a
>> "shergo-not".
>>
>> Wouldn't I be emabarassed if I was wrong, and my
>> "wrong" wasn't?
>>
>> Bob V.
>>
>> --------------- Original Message ----------------
>>
>> [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology
>> experts out there
>> Graham Christensen voltage at telus.net
>> Thu Apr 7 05:21:16 EDT 2005
>>
>>
>> Hello list
>>
>> I've had this rock sitting on my kitchen table since
>> last year when I picked it up along the side of the
>> road while out for a walk. It is a fairly smooth
>> green rock with black bits in it and it looks somewhat
>> like my DAG 476
>> shergottite but it's a slightly lighter shade of
>> green. I have yet to grind an end off to see what the
>> inside looks like but there are a couple chips
>> out of it and it looks about the same on the inside
>> with the green part being fine grained and the black
>> bits are individual crystals. I doubt that it is
>> meteoritic (there is no trace of fusion crust) but I
>> was wondering if it might be similar to a shergottite
>> but of terrestrial origin.
>>
>> Here is a pic of it:
>> http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter/dag476andunidentified.jpg
>> The small slice in the forground is my DAG 476 and the
>> big rock is of course the rock in question.
>>
>> I have been collecting rocks on and off in this area
>> since I was a kid and I haven't seen anything like it
>> but that doesn't mean much. I live in Alberta, Canada,
>> where most of the rocks you find lying on the ground
>> were brought down from various locations by the
>> glaciers of the last ice age so it's kind of a potluck
>> dinner of geology up here.
>>
>> I won't get my hopes up, but I certainly wouldn't mind
>> copying Bob Verish
>> and finding out I've been sitting on a mars meteorite
>> for a year!! :-)
>>
>> Any comments are greatly appreciated
>> Graham
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>
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