[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - January 24, 2007

From: Meteoriteshow <meteoriteshow_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:21:01 +0100
Message-ID: <001201c73f9a$7ebc6da0$0100a8c0_at_IBM>

Dear Michael and List Members,

I just wish to inform you that there was a misunderstanding with this meteorite displayed on Jan. 24 as the Meteorite of the Day -
http://www.spacerocksinc.com/January_24.html-, which is not a Benguerir fragment but an unclassified Ordinary Chondrite that was
also purchased in Erfoud in August 2006.
This meteorite -labelled FB01- was brought with other ones to Pierre Rochette and Jerome Gattacecca at CEREGE in Aix en Privence,
France, in order to get its magnetic susceptibility measured (LogX -say "Logchi").
Weighing 415g, FB01 has a LogX = 4,80, which puts it most probably in the range of the "L" chondrites according to the diagram
provided by Pierre Rochette and Jerome Gattacecca that you can see on the Caillou Noir website at
http://www.caillou-noir.com/magnetic-susceptibility_SM30.htm. This webpage will help those of you who are not familiar with the
magnetic susceptibility of chondrites to understand better the interest of this property that could become in the future a way of
easy, fast and non destructive mean of classification, especially for fresh chondrites like this one.

I wish you all a nice day!
Kind regards,

Frederic Beroud
http://www.meteoriteshow.com
IMCA member # 2491 (http://www.imca.cc/)
Received on Wed 24 Jan 2007 04:21:01 AM PST