[meteorite-list] Does this NWA look familiar to anyone?

From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Jan 27 15:18:50 2005
Message-ID: <029c01c504ac$07bdea60$6401a8c0_at_c1720188a>

I do not know who the seller is but he/she was correct either way. NWA 869
has not been classified and is not official so calling it unclassified would
be honest. NWA 869 is not a synonym for NWA 787 which is official but more
than likely they are paired.

Regards,

Adam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse_at_charter.net>
To: <cynapse_at_charter.net>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Does this NWA look familiar to anyone?


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:12:16 -0500, Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_charter.net>
wrote:

>I've just bought what to me is a very interesting looking unclassified NWA
piece, and I was
>wondering it looks distinctivly like any numbered NWA find to anyone-- in
other words, is it a piece
>from a known find. It has a very dark, possibly greenish matrix,
brecciation, and as far as I can
>tell from the photos, it seem to have a low metal content. I of course can
take much better photos
>when it reaches me, but I was hoping it might jump out at someone.
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6506068469

Update on this: before the piece arrived I was browsing Ebay and came across
a seller with several
slices of "NWA 787" which looked very similar to my unknown piece. I did a
quick Google search,
though, and found that NWA 787 is a probable synonym for NWA 869.

So the lot of pieces (I bought several other items from the seller at the
same time) arrived today,
and the very card that came with it labeled it as NWA 869! So I'm torn on
this issue. While on the
one hand it seems to me pretty dishonest by the seller to clearly call it
unclassified in the
auction (possibly as an deliberate attempt to make it seem more unusual
rather than a simple
mistake), on the other hand it still is a beautiful piece with significant
flow features and is
probably well worth the slightly less than 50 cents per gram that I paid for
it. (Which is more
than three times more than I have paid for NWA 869 in the past, but still
cheaper than the $3-ish
per gram the other seller wanted for the similar "NWA 787".)

Look at these scans I made of the piece now that I have it (actual piece not
quite as contrasty as
scan makes it look).

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/nwa869_orientedslice_top.jpg

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/nwa869_orientedslice_bottom.jpg

So how would you handle this-- be upset with the seller for calling it
"unclassified" when it was
NWA 869, or just be happy with the piece and let it slide?
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