[meteorite-list] India Meteorite Guessing Contest?

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Aug 1 11:19:58 2006
Message-ID: <20060801151956.77488.qmail_at_web53201.mail.yahoo.com>

Martin,
  I concur, Eucrite. dirk ross..Tokyo

--- Martin Horejsi <accretiondesk_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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