[meteorite-list] Beware of the two kinds of 'Moss'-material...

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Aug 16 18:18:04 2006
Message-ID: <20060816221801.21767.qmail_at_web33115.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

WOW, now where have I heard this before, the old "my
material is better than his material because his was
rained on" spiel! I went through this with Bensour,
Thuathe, and Benguerir, now it seems with Moss.
My meteorite was found on Sunday, July 30th. As you
yourself right Bjorn, the heavy rains started AFTER
July 30th. Can you please them tell us how something
that started AFTER I picked up my pieces would affect
my pieces?
Is Norway some kind of time-travel country, where
events that occur after something can affect the past?

Theses pieces are about as pristine as they can be.
There was a sprinkle or two in the area the day
before, but it was barely enough to wet the car glass.
If you want to wait to buy some material that may or
may now show up, be my guest. Just don?t buy into the
BS as seems to the norm with all new falls now.
Michael Farmer



--- Bjorn Sorheim <astrogeo_at_online.no> wrote:

>
> Hello List,
> I think the buyers of the 'Moss'-meteorite should be
> aware of the
> fact that there are two kinds of material coming
> from the fall in
> Moss, Norway:
>
> 1) The freshest is the material that was not
> affected by the heavy rains
> from about the 30th of July.
> Before this it was all dry (and the farmers
> complained it was the
> driest summer in many decades). I was there myself
> in Moss only in
> the dry period.
> As you may know, only me and Mazur and another
> finder collected our material
> on the 19th, 23rd (and 24th). Se my erlier posting:
>
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2006-August/186289.html
> (E.Twelker will also have this same material in some
> time - see his posts.)
> This is well before the rains started.
> This is also the only material from the biggest
> piece found.
>
> 2) The rest of the material that is available has
> been collected well after
> the rains started.
>
> One world class american meteorite classifier has
> seen both materials and
> has commented that the 'after the rains material' is
> clearly more oxidized.
> So to get the only existing original pristine
> material the only source is
> Mazur,
> myself (and later Twelker).
>
> Be aware also that this material can be a new group
> of carbonaceous
> meteorite as it contains small white CAIs, isolated
> olivine grains, but do
> not look
> quite like other COs. This might make 'Moss' the
> type specimen of
> a new group with one member? So, maybe the price is
> not very high
> for this material...
>
> Contact me off the list for price/weight and order
> information.
> (Tomorrow I will also have a page for this at:
>
http://home.online.no/~bsoerhei/astro/meteor/060714/moss.html
> )
>
> Best wishes,
> Bj?rn S?rheim
>
>
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