[meteorite-list] Meteorite Coordinates?

From: JKGwilliam <h3chondrite_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jan 15 16:15:41 2005
Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.2.20050115141038.0288eeb0_at_pop.west.cox.net>

At 11:03 AM 1/15/2005, bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de wrote:
> > ... the Coordinates for the Bagdad AZ iron?
>
>Hello Tom and List,
>
>Bagdad, IIIAB
>Mohave County, Arizona
>34? 32' N / 113? 25' W
>Find, 1960
>
>BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron
>Meteorites, Volume 2, pp. 292-294, excerpts:
>
>Bagdad is a well-rounded with a few flat to concave faces, giving the
>impression of an orange having been packed too tightly with other
>oranges in a box. Its maximum dimensions are 10.5 x 8.5 x 7 cm,
>and the weight as recovered was 2205 g. Most of the fusion crust
>has spalled off due to terrestrial corrosion, but no severe attack has
>developed. The meteorite still preserves a smoothly rounded outline,
>broken only by two shallow regmaglypts on what was probably the rear
>side during atmospheric entry. Avce and Bushman Land are other small
>irons with a similar exterior morphology.
>
>.. the etched sections display a medium Widmanst?tten structure of straight,
>long kamacite lamellae with a width of 1.10?0.10 mm. They also show a
>beautiful,
>oriented sheen, ... Bagdad is a shock-hardened medium octahedrite which is
>related to Kayakent, Augusta County and Cumpas.
>
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Bernd
>
>To: peregrineflier_at_npgcable.com
> Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com


There is a picture of an etched slice of Bagdad in the book, "Catalog of
Meteorites in the collection of Arizona State University" on page eighteen.
This slice shows a heat rim around the entire circumference.

Best,
John Gwilliam





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