[meteorite-list] NWA 3119 (LL4)
From: Jeff Kuyken <info_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Aug 12 04:23:31 2006 Message-ID: <006901c6bde7$9373e960$e7578b90_at_mandin4f89ypwu> Hi Bernd, Jerry & List, NWA 3119 is a great meteorite and one of my favourites! I would have to agree with Bernd's comments that it is probably a type-3 (breccia?). The problem is that it seems to be a fairly heterogenous meteorite which probably makes classification very type specimen dependent. A bit like the problems faced with some of the NWA Eucrite vs Howardite. The 4th image shows a field of chondrules (on left) which generally appear much more primitive; a little like the NWA 2892 / NWA 2748 chondrule conglomerate. It's funny you mention the bleached chondrules Bernd, because the larger one is probably my favourite example that I have. http://www.meteorites.com.au/odds&ends/BleachedChondrules.html There's a higher resolution on the NWA 3119 slice here: http://www.meteorites.com.au/media/ Cheers, Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de To: Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 4:50 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 ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Sat 12 Aug 2006 04:16:06 AM PDT |
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