[meteorite-list] India Meteorite Guessing Contest?

From: Armando Afonso <armandoafonso_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Aug 1 20:15:09 2006
Message-ID: <005001c6b57f$658978a0$62b0fea9_at_TOSHIBA>

Paving stone - basalt from the local quarry!
AA
----- Original Message -----
From: "drtanuki" <drtanuki_at_yahoo.com>
To: "Martin Horejsi" <accretiondesk_at_gmail.com>;
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Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] India Meteorite Guessing Contest?


> 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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