[meteorite-list] Why are Esquel slices Transparent Blue?

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2004_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Feb 16 01:28:31 2006
Message-ID: <20060216062828.65570.qmail_at_web26214.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Its a problem of photos...when I take a photo of a
pallasite I put in front of the photography machine a
white paper and i have the metal of the pallasite with
a right color, behinh a light for the olivine, type in
this photo if is in low resolution and is not well
visible

http://it.geocities.com/mcomemeteoritecollection/Imilacgr.96.JPG

Matteo
--- "Gary K. Foote" <gary_at_webbers.com> ha scritto:

> Thank you Ron,
>
> It didn't make sense to me, but every sample I saw
> photographed was the same blue matrix
> color. Of _course_ one would hold it to the sun to
> show off the olivines and pyroxenes,
> thus reflecting the back sky in the iron.
>
> Doh!
>
> Gary
>
> On 15 Feb 2006 at 17:17, Ron Baalke wrote:
>
> > >
> > >
>
http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com/AZ_Skies_Links/Stony_Irons/index.html
> > >
> >
> > I thought you were referring to the color of the
> olivine crystals, but the
> > crystals in this photo are the typical red/orange
> color you'd expect for any
> > pallasite. The blue color is being reflected by
> the polished metal portion
> > of the pallasite, and the source of the blue color
> could be something as
> > simple as the sky, or a blue wall in the room.
> The meteorite itself
> > it not blue.
> >
> > Ron Baalke
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