[meteorite-list] Vesicular Basalt

From: Gary K. Foote <gary_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Dec 16 14:19:38 2005
Message-ID: <43A2CCF5.5351.1FC88DA_at_localhost>

Hello Bernd,

Thanks for the welcome. The piece I describe as vesicular basalt is only
a guess on my part. It just looks too much like it to be much else. I
probably should have it tested, eh? I could be wrong after all. It
does show some attraction to magnets.

Thank you for the reference to Warren Foote. I'll have to look further to
read more about him.

Happy to be here,

Gary

On 16 Dec 2005 at 11:19, meteorite-list-request_at_meteoritecentral.c wrote:

> Gary kindly wrote:
>
> " I wanted to post, as a new member of this list, a bit of
> introduction."
>
> Welcome to "our" List!
>
> "I have been an amateur atronomer since I was a child"
>
> You will find out that many of us are both amateur astronomers (or have
> a vivid interest in everything celestial) and passionate lovers of these
> messengers from the sky.
>
> " ...a meteorwrong [vesicular basalt] here in New England."
>
> What a pity it is a meteorwrong. A brief, passing look and one might
> think it is a vesicular impact melt rock like Cat Mountain (an L5 impact
> melt breccia which has vesicles too!).
>
> "Anyway, I'm happy to be among this illustrious company"
>
> Your family name should be a good omen, because it is also an
> illustrious name meteorite-wise. Here's an example:
>
> ART. XXXIX.-Preliminary Note on the Shower of Meteoric Stones near
> Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona, July 19th, 1912, including a
> Reference to the Perseid Swarm of Meteors visible from July 11th to
> August 22nd by WARREN M. FOOTE.
>
> "Unfortunately I'm 54"
>
> No problem at all ... I am almost 61 ;-)
>
> Best wishes
> from Germany,
>
> Bernd
Received on Fri 16 Dec 2005 02:19:33 PM PST