[meteorite-list] apology(+Lunar Hunters)

From: MexicoDoug <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:29:51 -0600
Message-ID: <00df01c72514$dd55a660$f5c85ec8_at_0019110394>

Alex, Big NWA 4485 congratulations and may the befreundet Christmas spirit
brilliantly bring velvety melanite-emblazoned gems into Germany's skies.
That moonpiece is dangerously admirable for anyone with purse and a pulse.

I'm still walking on water for Christmas's to come, after an encounter
relieving those same, modest, and celebrated Moon-hunting Loons of a bit of
NWA 4483 (Lun-A, paired to the other renowned Lunar Hunter's NWA 3163) :-)
My Christmas spending this year literally has gone to the dogs, as Guadalupe
y Caldo barked - such a cute little ballistoled biscuit of iron hexahedrite
to feed a voracious diet of vital things and minerals...

(see: http://www.ballistol.co.uk/html/product_animal.html to complete this
attempt at "dog care" - if it's new to you, you'll get a kick out of this
one!)

On to your comment about the German online translator:

> Would a babelfish translator to German work reasonably well on this? :-)

Maybe it could when all else fails; it isn't uncommon to find references to
several languages in James Joyce's work, which are often missed by
unsuspecting researchers :-).

Thanks for the sympathetic comments. Joyce wrote that passage around 75
years ago in his last great literary work, "Finnegan's Wake" (as apparently
noted by an astute listmember). While the text's many enigmatic messages
are still being interpreted, much remains a work in progress. To me, on one
level, it describes both the light phenomenon associated with a meteor and
physical characteristics of a meteorite (matrix and fusion crust). Also,
there seem to be an undercurrent for the role of meteorites in the formation
of the Solar system (1920's-1930's timeframe!). The word
"electrolatiginous", is especially curious: Whether unrelated, coincidental,
or not, may refer to chondrules and other peppered aspects attracted and
cast into the matrix of ordinary chondrites. On another level it seems the
authors intent was to describe a rag-tag posse of "claymen" (clay which is
used in sculpting and also binds and transports water). Anyway, the opinion
of the refined meteoritical community would be valuble to scholars who still
argue over the genius of this vastly complex masterpiece.

Peace and Looniness to all, Doug

> Then again: back to meteorites, da real stuff! My christmas one: a nice
little (0.441 g) chunk of lunar NWA 4485 mare basalt breccia intermixed with
anorthosite clasts, bound to be another possible member of the Lun-M clan as
time goes by, from one of my most favorite dealers.
>
> Have a good time and happy holidays all, and a prosperous 2007 with many a
great new meteorite about to fall from the skies!
Received on Thu 21 Dec 2006 10:29:51 AM PST