[meteorite-list] India Meteorite Guessing Contest?

From: Martin Horejsi <accretiondesk_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Aug 1 11:06:43 2006
Message-ID: <9c2f96d20608010806o25e849c7x62852964785e5575_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

Looks like we have another opportunity for a classification contest.

Based upon the early photos, it sure looks like the glossy Ca-rich
fusion crust of a Eucrite, with my more specific guess (hard to tell
since the photo is small) of a polymict fragmental breccia with
dominantly plagioclase and pyroxene clasts set into a fine-grained
matrix of zoned orthopyroxene.

My guess on the TKW is under 200g! What's that based upon? Well, it
looks like the other fragments found are too weathered to be from this
fall, and are likely from this planet (if you catch my drift).

Cheers,

Martin
Received on Tue 01 Aug 2006 11:06:38 AM PDT