[meteorite-list] NWA 2140 smells like gum?

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:56:16 -0600
Message-ID: <007c01c71821$5107edd0$952f4842_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, Walter, List,

    Norton's Rocks From Space, 2nd. Edition, p. 294,
but what he actually says is it "smelled like a bottle
of fine wine," probably not the same as bubblegum...
    So, I can't remember which was the "bubblegum"
meteorite. Parneallee is said to smell like "organic
solvent." Johnstown (Colorado) smelled like "alcohol."
    The Tagish Lake recovery log quotes one witness
as saying "He went outside and saw the sunlit debris
cloud. About one min later he noted a strange almost
indescribable smell which lasted 45 minutes. Smell
was very pungent, sort of a burning or acrid smell."
Other witnesses described a kerosene, sulphur, or
metallic smell, and one said "like a match had just
been struck."
    The only other amusement in the Tagish Lake
official recovery log is the description of specimen
HG-04: "Not a meteorite -- dung." The recovery
log does not note what it smelled like.
    Perhaps it was Orgueil ("The Sweet Smell of
Orgueil," Meteorite, Feb. '03). Google has failed.
We'll probably have to rely on Bernd to solve
this one, too.


Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Walter Branch" <waltbranch at bellsouth.net>
To: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>; "Mike Bandli"
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 2140 smells like gum?


> Murchison? Bubble gum?
> Asphalt maybe, but bubble gum?
>
> Are your sure it was bubble gum?
>
> -Walter
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Mike Bandli" <fuzzfoot at comcast.net>; "'Meteorite Mailing List'"
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Bob Haag reported that one fresh Murchison
>> kept in a mason jar from immediately after the fall
>> smelled very strongly and aromatically like fresh
>> bubble gum! (This was, I believe, only a week
>> or two after the fall.)
>>
>> Sterling K. Webb
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mike Bandli" <fuzzfoot at comcast.net>
>> To: "'Meteorite Mailing List'" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 5:14 PM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] NWA 2140 smells like gum?
>>
>>
>> I received two slices of this CV3 meteorite and noticed they smell like
>> fruity gum. It's very weak but definitely noticeable. Yes.I smell all my
>> meteorites when I get them.it can't be that strange of a ritual. Anyone
>> else
>> out there with NWA 2140 notice this? Or did my dealer happen to be
>> wearing
>> his wife's Bath 'N Body Works hand lotion when he packed my slices.
>>
>> I remember some other C meteorite having similar scent, no?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Mike Bandli
>>
>>
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