[meteorite-list] New Ataxite Iron - Dumont

From: McCartney Taylor <mccartney_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:38:27 -0600
Message-ID: <1169501907.8920.34.camel_at_Game-machine>

This is the official info release of a new iron. I identified this on a
West Texas Trip in February 2005. It took a year of negotiating with
the rancher before I got my paws on it.

Trip info at
http://imca.repetti.net/metinfo/metadventures/west_texas.html

The iron masses 42.27 kg. Named the DUMONT (provisional).
It is an IVB ataxite. There are less than a dozen IVB irons known.

According to Dr Wasson - 16.2% Ni
 "It belongs to the high-Ir, low-Au, low-Ni subset of group IVB. The
other members of this subgroup are Iquique, Tlacotepec, Gallipoli[prov.]
and Cape of Good Hope."

I'll be in Tucson at Inn Suites room 230. I will have a few slices in
Tucson, but not many, I was a putz and didn't get many done in time.

-mt
IMCA 2760
Received on Mon 22 Jan 2007 04:38:27 PM PST