[meteorite-list] NWA Number Count - status of NWA brachinites

From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:25:38 -0500
Message-ID: <D7259C2AD020444E98A9CD01BA7F67AF_at_Gregor>

Hi Zelimir,

One thing I forgot to mention, the NWA number count is at NWA 5480 (maybe a
few more since last week). It looks like the brachinite count is what you
have listed earlier, unless there are any currently under study, none that I
have heard of from scientists here in the U.S.

This goes to show that brachinites are still a very rare group of
achondrites with a combined total of less than 9 kilos!! That is less than
Lunar and Martian meteorites!!!

Best regards,
Greg

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Zelimir Gabelica" <Zelimir.Gabelica at uha.fr>
To: "Greg Hupe" <gmhupe at htn.net>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] status of NWA brachinites


Yep Greg, you are fully right. I just made a wrong recopy from the
database. Sorry for that. Even if NWA brachinites are not so numerous, it
is easy to make confusions.

Regarding NWA 595, this is new to me, though, as Met. Soc. member, I do
have all the MAPS issues.
Strange that, after this rather official statement (MAPS abstract), nobody
brought corrections to the Met Bull data...

Thanks a lot, yest it greatly helps.

Best,

Zelimir

A 10:02 02/12/2008 -0500, Greg Hupe a ?crit :
>Hello Zelimir,
>
>NWA 4882: Here is the statement I see in the Bulletin:
>"Classification: Achondrite (brachinite). This specimen (NWA 4882) is very
>similar in external appearance, texture, and mineral compositions to NWA
>4969, with which it may be paired (Wittke et al. 2008). It also is very
>similar to NWA 3151 in texture, olivine, and plagioclase compositions, and
>patterns of staining around metal (Irving et al. 2005). However, the
>clinopyroxenes in these two specimens have somewhat different compositions,
>and NWA 3151 contains much less plagioclase and lacks the distinctive
>polyphase assemblages found in NWA 4882."
>
>I see they state NWA 4696 "may" be paired to NWA 4882. They do show that
>those two are not paired to NWA 3151.
>
>Concerning NWA 595, here is a link to an abstract that illustrates that it
>is actually not a brachinite:
>http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2005/pdf/5213.pdf
>
>I hope this helps!
>
>Best regards,
>Greg
>
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>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Zelimir Gabelica"
><Zelimir.Gabelica at uha.fr>
>To: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>;
><meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:20 AM
>Subject: [meteorite-list] status of NWA brachinites
>
>
>Hi Martin,
>
>I fully agree.
>
>To be complete, here is what I have in my archives:
>
>..."NWA 4969 (BRA, Algeria, tkw = 1 at 180 g) from Marcin, is paired with NWA
>4882 (Algeria, from Hup?'s, BRA, tkw = 2_at_ 3096 g), but apparently not with
>NWA 3151 (BRA, Hup?'s, tkw = 1 at 1500 grams), nor with NWXA 5191 (1 at 26.5 g)
>
>With the new NWA 5471 from Heir's, this indeed makes 4 brachinites from
>the "NWA" vast strewnfield.
>
>However, in Met. Bull. database, we find the following brachinites from
>"NWA", this better completing the picture:
>
>NWA 595 (Cottingham, Morocco (?), 1 at 196 g)
>NWA 3151 (Hup?'s, NWA (Morocco ?), 1 at 1500 g)
>NWA 4872 (Aaronson, Algeria, 1 at 3000 g)
>NWA 4874 (Aaronson, Algeria, 1 at 28 g) (can it be paired with NWA 4872 above
>???)
>NWA 4876 (anonymous, NWA ( Morocco ?), 1 at 130 g
>NWA 4882 (G. Hup?, Algeria, 2 at 3096 g)
>NWA 4969 (M. Cimala, NWA (Morocco ?), 1 at 180 g
>NWA 5191 (anonymous, found in Morocco desert, 1 at 26.5, said to be paired
>with NWA 3151, thus suggesting this latter was also found in Morocco
>
>NWA 5471 (C. Heir's, Morocco (??), 1 (??)_at_538 g, paired with ???? (not yet
>in Met. Bull.)
>----------
>Total: not copunting pairings, we find 9 different meteorite names (NWA
>numbers), probably 10 separate pieces, totalling 8694,5 grams
>
>Question: How far are these data (Met Bulll database + NWA 5471) correct
>and complete ?
>
>Who can complete, possibly remove the ???'s and add comments about
>pairings, so that we all can update our archives regarding NWA brachinites?
>
>Bernd? Greg ? Marcin ? Martin ? or Jeff ?
>
>Thanks and best wishes,
>
>Zelimir
>
>
>
>A 13:40 02/12/2008 +0100, Martin Altmann a ?crit :
>>Oooops, little correction, was in a brachinite flush.
>>
>>Must be NWA 4882 not 3151.
>>
>>But NWA 3151 is cool stuff too.
>>And Marcin's NWA 4969.
>>
>>Take them all. All are the money well worth.
>>
>>So, something forgotten?
>>
>>Crazy. To be able to buy 5 brachinites in one day.
>>Never happened before in history.
>>
>>Best
>>Martin
>>
>>-----Urspr??ngliche Nachricht-----
>>Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
>>[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Martin
>>Altmann
>>Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2008 13:04
>>An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Brachinites & NWA 4882
>>
>>Good Morning list,
>>
>>and ooops what's going on?
>>
>>I'm sure Dirk wanted to express his enthusiasm rather than to offend
>>someone.
>>
>>Friends! Brachinites! Can you have too many of them in the collection???
>>There are so few finds, such a tiny batch of material and yet they are so
>>diverse and heterogeneous, that brachinites are still a really enigmatic
>>class.
>>
>>Always a good read, David Weir's Studies: http://www.meteoritestudies.com/
>>
>>When we decided to blow our NWA 5471, no matter whether it was the main
>>mass or small-budget-sizes, the price-finding was simple. We checked the
>>prices on the dealers' pages and the results on ebay of the few pieces
>>offered there, to be sure, to have a silly low price.
>>
>>Check it by your own.
>>200$ a gram is affordable standard;
>>everything below 200$ is a good buy;
>>everything below 150$ is a bargain;
>>everything below 100$ is a MUST and a categorical imperative.
>>
>>So we made 65$ a gram as a gift.
>>
>>Now Greg tells us, that his NWA 3151 is available at an even lower rate!
>>
>>What are the consequences? Good heavens - Buy them! Buy a NWA 3151, buy a
>>NWA 5471, if you have already a 3151, take additionally a 5471, if you own
>>a 5471, add a 3151. What are you waiting for, prices went silly!
>>Bah, prices are in ruin
>> Matteo 27:4
>>
>>Follow me. Why "silly"?
>>
>>Stats, stats, stats!
>>
>>Use the formidable instrument of the Meteoritical Bulletin Database:
>>http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php
>>
>>Nineteen (including ours not listed yet) finds and numbers.
>>Pairing indications often mentioned in the descriptions,
>>hence probably we're talking about less than a dozen different falls.
>>Quantities, sum them up! 10kgs. That is all.
>>Jump in the garden and grab 10kgs of stones from the rose bed to get a
>>notion of the total volume in existence on Earth.
>>
>>What are you waiting for?
>>Seen the numbers of finds and the weights, it's the same, as you would get
>>offered a Moon at 10$ a gram.
>>
>>That tomorrow a ton of that stuff will fall?
>>Unlikely, I guess.
>>Since the day Jacob rested his weary head on the black baethyl to dream
>>his dream of his ladder there were found only those few handfuls of tiny
>>stones.
>>
>>Please - ANSMET, NIPR, EUROMET, PRIC with all their manpower and the
>>primary and secondary means of maybe 1 billion together in these 31 years,
>>they recovered half a pound of that stuff.
>>
>>Give 10,000$ to Greg or to us and you can have another half a pound.
>>
>>That's what I call a performance.
>>And that's that "service to science", which sounds sometimes so solemnly,
>>and where about some are smiling, but nevertheless is true.
>>
>>Huh, and revilers of dry food:
>>Aren't these both not the best proves, that NWAs do have a "personality"?
>>
>>Eagles Nest. Found by a hunter in desert.
>>Reid. Found by a hunter in desert.
>>Hughes. Found by a hunter in desert.
>>NWA 3151. Found by a hunter in desert.
>>NWA 5471 Found by a hunter in desert.
>>
>>History reloaded!
>>
>>(Shhht have you noticed that NWA 3151 as well as NWA 5471 are looking
>>prettier than Eagles Nest?).
>>
>>
>>Quintessence of that little discussion is:
>>
>>Chladni's Heirs say: We give you the Koh-I-Noor for a dime!
>>The Hup??s say: We give you the Millennium Star for a nickel!
>>
>>The collectors know that.
>>
>>Hey universities, colleges - these are our sweet pills to ease your pains
>>of budget shortage!
>>
>>Good Morning Chicago, good morning London! Guten Morgen Wien! Bonjour
>>Paris!
>>Shubh Sanyankal Calcutta! Grueziwohl Bern! Salve Vatican........
>>Shhhhh, Perth, Adelaide, Victoria - homes of all brachinites are still
>>slumbering on the other side of the globe. O joyful awakening, addition to
>>the family!
>>
>>Wake up! And set for a moment these triceratops skulls, the fancy rock
>>crystals, the silver curls, the rubies aside. Such expensive mass stuff
>>you can buy in all eternity.
>>
>>Brachinites? You don't have something rarer but only today so cheap in
>>your collections.
>>And when they are gone, they're gone.
>>
>>Don't want to read as a doter your swan songs about the Golden Age of
>>meteorites.
>>You all were here, you all were informed.
>>
>>Ask NASA, ask ESA, ask IAXA - will it take a hundred years or 200 years -
>>until probes will hunt for the remainders of the brachinite parent
>>bodie(s)
>>in space?
>>
>>
>>Sounds all quite exaggerated, doesn't it?
>>
>>Sorry. These are the proportions, when we're talking about brachinites.
>>These are the facts, when we're talking about meteorites.
>>
>>Brachinites are space exploration 2008-2050.
>>
>>And these are some and by far not all aspects, why we all and often the
>>professionals too,
>>do love and venerate our meteorites.
>>
>>Best!
>>Martin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Urspr??ngliche Nachricht-----
>>Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
>>[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Greg
>>Hupe
>>Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2008 02:18
>>An: drtanuki at yahoo.com
>>Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>Betreff: [meteorite-list] Brachinites & NWA 4882
>>
>>Hello Dirk and List,
>>
>>Dirk, since you would like to promote brachinite material, here is a
>>little
>>insight you may not be aware of:
>>
>>NWA 4882 Brachinite (unpaired) - I have made private sales several months
>>PRIOR to Martin's public offering, at much less than their great price per
>>gram. I know MY customers are very happy with their greatly discounted
>>rate!
>>I simply do not have time to offer all of the different and new meteorites
>>I
>>have at one time publicly, AND I am not trying to interfer with their
>>sales,
>>but since Dirk brought this out in what I perceive in a negative tone,
>>here
>>is one heck of a Brachinite for serious collections:
>>
>>Click here to view complete slice of NWA 4882 measuring 130mm wide!
>>
>>http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4882/nwa4882slice.jpg
>>
>>
>>
>>Click here to view complete NWA 4882 stone before cutting:
>>
>>http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4882/nwa4882.jpg
>>
>>
>>
>>Click here to view close-up of polished NWA 4882 matrix:
>>
>>http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4882/nwa4882closeup.jpg
>>
>>
>>Official Classification:
>>Northwest Africa 4882
>>
>>Algeria
>>
>>Find: July 2007
>>
>>Achondrite (brachinite)
>>
>>History: Purchased by Greg Hup?? in July 2007 from a dealer in Tagounite,
>>Morocco.
>>
>>Physical characteristics: Two dense, dark brown, broken rounded stones
>>(2891
>>g and 206 g) with weathered fusion crust on some original exterior
>>surfaces
>>and thin desert varnish coatings on hackly broken surfaces.
>>
>>Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Coarse-grained rock (mostly
>>0.2-0.8 mm) with protogranular texture, composed predominantly of olivine
>>with subordinate green, Cr-bearing diopside, K-poor plagioclase, chromite,
>>iron sulfide, and kamacite (partially altered to iron hydroxides).
>>Plagioclase is interstitial to mafic silicates and is heterogeneous in
>>distribution. Very fine-grained (2-10 ??m), polyphase assemblages composed
>>mostly of orthopyroxene, Ni-bearing pyrrhotite and Ni-free metal with
>>variable amounts of fayalite and chromite occur around larger pyrrhotite
>>grains within olivine, and also as small, isolated apparent inclusions
>>within olivine.
>>
>>Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa35.0-35.2, FeO/MnO = 70.9-71.3), clinopyroxene
>>(Fs9.3Wo47.1, FeO/MnO = 38.6, Cr2O3 = 0.76wt%, Al2O3 = 1.05 wt%),
>>plagioclase (An32.1- 37.6Or0.3-0.5), chromite [Cr/(Cr + Al) = 0.717,
>>Mg/(Mg
>>+ Fe) = 0.239, TiO2 = 0.71 wt%, ZnO = 0.30 wt%]. Oxygen isotopes: (D.
>>Rumble, CIW) Replicate analyses of acid-washed silicate material by laser
>>fluorination gave, respectively, ??18O = 2.064, 2.095; ??17O = 4.368,
>>4.455;
>>?"17O = -0.234, -0.248 per mil.
>>
>>Classification: Achondrite (brachinite).
>>
>>Specimens: A total of 20.4 g of sample and one polished thin section are
>>on
>>deposit at UWS. GHup?? holds the main mass (actually now in a private
>>collection).
>>
>>
>>
>>I sent this to a professional cutter who used a wire saw and cut these at
>>3mm thick and polished to a high luster. If you want a large museum
>>quality
>>specimen at an even BETTER rate, be sure to contact me off list.
>>
>>
>>
>>I have already placed over half of this material into large collections,
>>which only leaves 15 slices and the 206g fragment. Half are the larger
>>slices like the one featured above.
>>
>>
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Greg
>>
>>====================
>>Greg Hupe
>>The Hupe Collection
>>NaturesVault (eBay)
>>gmhupe at htn.net
>>www.LunarRock.com
>>IMCA 3163
>>====================
>>Click here for my current eBay auctions:
>>http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "drtanuki" <drtanuki at yahoo.com>
>>To: <STARSANDSCOPES at aol.com>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 7:38 PM
>>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEW Olivine Diogenite - NWA 4223 - AD
>>
>>
>> > Hello Tom and List,
>> > I would suggest that you check out the fantastic NWA 5471
>> brachinite > that
>> > Martin and Stefan are selling for a VERY REASONABLE price; more than 2
>> > grams of the material instead of a thin section (you can make your own
>> > thin sections- several).
>> >
>> > Thank you Martin and Stefan for your very generous price for such a >
>> rare
>> > classification.
>> >
>> > Dirk Ross...Tokyo
>> > http://www.meteoritesjapan.com
>> > http://www.insekijapan.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --- On Tue, 12/2/08, STARSANDSCOPES at aol.com <STARSANDSCOPES at aol.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> From: STARSANDSCOPES at aol.com <STARSANDSCOPES at aol.com>
>> >> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEW Olivine Diogenite - NWA 4223 - AD
>> >> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> >> Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 9:23 AM
>> >> Hi list members, For those who are interested in thin
>> >> sections. Greg has
>> >> been kind enough to (previously) lend me the NWA 3151
>> >> Brachinite that he has
>> >> for sale. My micrograph article in Meteorite Times
>> >> December is on this thin
>> >> section.
>> >>
>> >> I felt obliged to say it is a wonderful sample prepared
>> >> splendidly! I
>> >> worked with it up to a magnification of 760X with great
>> >> results. If you are
>> >> thinking of adding a thin to your collection, I would
>> >> recommend this one and check
>> >> out the article. Bernd Pauli has provided me with three
>> >> excellent wide
>> >> field cross polarized light micrographs that are also
>> >> included.
>> >>
>> >> Tom Phillips
>> >>
>> >> In a message dated 12/1/2008 4:36:02 P.M. Mountain
>> >> Standard Time,
>> >> gmhupe at htn.net writes:
>> >> Dear List Members,
>> >>
>> >> It is my pleasure to announce a NEW Olivine Diogenite, NWA
>> >> 4223, the third
>> >> member of this exclusive group. It took me three years to
>> >> get to this point
>> >> of first public offering so you know the science has been
>> >> done! It has a TKW
>> >> of just 329 grams and is very course-grained. I managed
>> >> through eBay's site,
>> >> so you can find all of the available material and
>> >> "Official" classification
>> >> of NWA 4223 with the "Buy it Now" feature here:
>> >>
>> >> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault
>> >>
>> >> In addition to these rare specimens, I have also listed
>> >> these, most at
>> >> reduced prices for the holidays:
>> >> NWA 1878 Mesosiderite (Fantastic etch!)
>> >> NWA 1879 Mesosiderite
>> >> NWA 2932 Mesosiderite
>> >> NWA 869 L4-6 1kg Lot
>> >> NWA 3118 CV3 100g Lot
>> >> NWA 3151 Brachinite Thin Section
>> >> NWA 4528 H5 500g Lot
>> >> Unclassified 2kg Lot
>> >> Chergach Individual 92.1g (99% crusted)
>> >> Chergach Individual 64.1g (100% crusted)
>> >> Gao Individual 154g (from Haag Collection)
>> >> Glorieta Pallasite Individual 13.7g
>> >> Muonionalusta End Cut 76.9g (starts at just 99 cents)
>> >>
>> >> Thank you for checking out what I have to offer, I
>> >> appreciate it!
>> >>
>> >> Best regards,
>> >> Greg
>> >>
>> >> ====================
>> >> Greg Hupe
>> >> The Hupe Collection
>> >> NaturesVault (eBay)
>> >> gmhupe at htn.net
>> >> www.LunarRock.com
>> >> IMCA 3163
>> >> ====================
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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