[meteorite-list] NWA 3119 (LL4)

From: Rob Wesel <nakhladog_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Aug 11 17:15:52 2006
Message-ID: <000901c6bd8b$50c32d30$04e2ec47_at_robewcufk0z2s3>

I still have a few pieces of this beautiful material available. Photos here:

http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com/catalog/nwa3119.htm

Rob Wesel
http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: <bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de>
To: <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 11:50 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] NWA 3119 (LL4)


> Hi Jeff, Jerry, and List,
>
> "Man! That's an incredible individual.
> Everything's in such outlandish focus."
>
> If that remark refers to NWA 3119, I whole-heartedly agree.
> It's really hard to believe we are "only" looking at an LL4
> chondrite. If I had to judge from the overall density and
> frequency of well-developed chondrules (especially in the
> seven o'clock position of Jeff's image #3), I'd probably call
> it an L3.x or an LL3.x but other areas are definitely more
> highly metamorphosed. Moreover, the olivine Fa-value (28.4)
> and the pyroxene Fs-value (23.6) clearly place it in the
> field of the LL4, LL5, LL6 chondrites.
>
> My 0.65-gram and 1.95-gram slices of this beautiful LL4 chondrite
> are from Rob Wesel. The smaller piece has chondrules sitting so
> tightly packed together that there is hardly any matrix material
> to be found. The larger piece is less chondrule-laden but sports
> a gorgeous, large pyroxene chondrule measuring 5 mm in diameter
> and close to the latter, there is one of those bull's-eye chondrules
> (bleached chondrules) that seem to be fairly abundant in NWA 3119.
> Jeff's images also show some of these bleached chondrules!
>
> Pictures of my two pieces go to Jeff and to Jerry!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernd
>
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