[meteorite-list] More about Andi's Recrystallized NWA iron

From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: 27 Sep 2007 18:15:22 UT
Message-ID: <DIIE.000000BC00001FF6_at_paulinet.de>

Hello Andi, Adam, Mike F., Simon and all
the others who purchased Andi's NWA iron,

Hello List,

I got my 14.74-gram NWA iron today. Thank you very much, Andi!
It is beautiful and looks really gorgeous, an iron its respective
owners will readily fall in love with!

Of course I immediately had to put it under my microscope and
remembered what Adam wrote: "It looks pretty close to a piece I
submitted some time ago that turned out to be a huge Mesosiderite
marble".

And, ... behold, there is not the usual crust you would expect around an
iron but something that looks more like the eucritic pebbles or olivine
inclusions (olivine nodules) we sometimes find in the Vaca Muerta
mesosiderite!

This, however, was only my second thought. My impromptu reaction
was: "Hey, this crust looks achondritic, maybe a bit winona-like!"

As the jury is still out on this NWA iron, the "guessing game" may
continue and its outcome may be quite a surprise to all concerned
and involved ;-)

Bernd
Received on Thu 27 Sep 2007 02:15:22 PM PDT