[meteorite-list] Norwegian meteorite classification guessing game

From: Göran Axelsson <axelsson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Jul 18 19:03:05 2006
Message-ID: <44BD69B9.40608_at_acc.umu.se>

Matson, Robert wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is someone keeping track of all the guesses for the classification
> of the new Norwegian fall? ;-) I guess I can go back through the
> archives and collect them all.
>
> Based purely on statistics of falls, I'd be disinclined to join the
> chorus and pick carbonaceous chondrite. An ordinary chondrite is
> far more probable. That said, this doesn't much look like an H-
> or L-chondrite. But equilibrated LL works for me.
>
> If I had to pick a carbonaceous type, I would rule out CB, CH, CI,
> CM, CV and CR. That leaves only CO and CK, and it looks more like
> a CK to my eye than CO. CKs are also very paramagnetic. --Rob
>

Paramagnetic? Are you shure you don't mean ferromagnetic? Paramagnetic
is a very weak form of magnetic attraction, for example aluminium which
is a strong paramagnetic material.
The type of magnetism displayed by iron and nickel is called ferromagnetic.

I'm not trying to bring back the old magnetic discussion again, just
commenting on a detail.

I'm trying to decide if I will go to Norway or not, I have some things
to do but I could go there in a few days. I will probably go in the end,
a fall this close isn't happening too often but I have other things to do...

In any case, this is interesting.

  :-)

/G?ran
Received on Tue 18 Jul 2006 07:07:37 PM PDT