[meteorite-list] Crust on old meteorites - Campo, Nantan, Morasko type

From: MexicoDoug <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 13:18:38 -0500
Message-ID: <00cd01c717d0$a8719180$294d81ac_at_thedawning>

Oops, make that desert varnish doesn't count as the original good stuff...


> Hi Marcin-ho,
>
> Does the crust after these millenium still look like you took a high
> temperature blow torch to steel and watched it turn rainbowish colores, or
> are we talking about an old magnetitated surface that has been exposed to
> the elements and kept certain characteristics of its original glory. Take
> a look at the Mazapil Iron in Vienna sometime and PLeeeeease send me a
> picture at high resolution.
>
> Desert varnish on stone meteorites does count as fusion crust, but I guess
> there are all kinds of crusts possible. Just not the original atmospheric
> issue,
>
> Best wishes, Doug
>
>
>
>
>> Dear Buckleboo
>> Yes its strange but I have here crust. And it is not only on this one
>> 282g
>> endpiece. Go and look into my 5kg endpiece in my shop. There are still
>> flow
>> lines on crust. And noone prove when Morasko fall. Maybe 5000 maybe 2000
>> y
>> ago.
>
>
Received on Mon 04 Dec 2006 01:18:38 PM PST


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