[meteorite-list] NWA 2995 - Mike and Jim's newest Lunar meteorite

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jan 28 16:53:05 2006
Message-ID: <014001c62454$c69145e0$4353fea9_at_ns279>

Ooops, I saw that I sent this earlier message to myself....:

Yes the pics remind me strong to 910 too.
The almost black matrix, the brecciation, the anorthites not with that
ivory luster, like they have in the more weathered Moons, but fresh like
white chalk! Yep, Dho 910 is a Moon for achromates. Black, white, grey - (I
call it Apollo style - if one remmebers the Apollo pics. The black sky, the
white spacesuits, the grey soil..).
A speciality of Dho 910 is, that it has a lot of vesicles and bubbles, also
quite large ones. The matrix is almost foamy. As it is so fresh, the
included gases were pumped out - let's see what the results will be.
How "bubbly" is yours?
Have you perhaps a pic of a cut surface for us?

Really stunning piece, must be a highlight of this year's Tucson!
Martin




----- Original Message -----
From: <bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de>
To: <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 10:43 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] NWA 2995 - Mike and Jim's newest Lunar meteorite


> Mike wrote:
>
> "Martin, we were discussing Dho 910 yesterday, this one to me is almost
> identical, just different colors in the mixed matrix, while 910 is
grey/blue
> and white, this one is white, black, yellow, green, and about all the
other
> colors in between."
>
> One of the noteworthy characteristics of Dhofar 910 is that it has
abundant
> vesicles. Does NWA 2995 also have such a significant amount of vesicles?
>
> Vesicles: the interesting thing about my two little Dho 910 slices (0.25 +
0.93 grams)
> is that they are peppered with such vesicles (large and small) but that
they are absent
> in the anorthosites and the other clasts.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bernd
>
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