[meteorite-list] RFS Picture of the Day Jan. 8 / weirdproperties of NWA ...

From: Bob King <nightsky55_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:46:20 -0600
Message-ID: <99c1e91a0801090646g6e986930w7103e5f88cba01d0_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi John,
Great photos! They prompted me to look over my slice again. The two
shiny metal blebs in the grey-blue lithology measure 3/4-1mm across.
They are very distinct. Closer to the boundary between grey-blue and
brown, there are a couple others but they're not as reflective and
appear altered. I checked the brown matrix very carefully on both
sides of the slice and did find one, fairly shiny metal bleb and a
few, small altered bits of metal. In any case, the parts that have the
strongest attraction to a magnet are highly altered, very dark veins
that have a flow pattern in them.
Bob

>
>
> On Jan 9, 2008 1:03 AM, Kashuba <mary.kashuba at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Phil, List,
> >
> > I put a couple slides of this material under the 'scope and found only very
> > small bits of metal in the blue lithology - and then, only in brownish areas
> > of it. (Yeah, but the slice is from a distinctly blue sample.) The brown
> > lithology had small, but naked eye size blebs of metal. It sounds like
> > brown, metal and magnetic are closely related. And that the blue lithology
> > started out with very little metal.
> >
> > I just added three pictures to the bottom of this page:
> >
> > http://johnkashuba.com/Pages/Meteorite%20Pages/Pictures/NWA2965EL3.htm#
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > - John
> >
> > John Kashuba
> > Ontario, California
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> > [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Phil
> > Morgan
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 5:17 PM
> > To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] RFS Picture of the Day Jan. 8 /
> > weirdproperties of NWA ...
> >
> > I find it interesting that the blue material is usually mentioned as being
> > less weathered but I've never seen any with visible metal but I have found
> > shiny iron flecks in the brown material.
> >
> > My small blue stone was encased in more of a "rind" than any of my brown
> > stones if that fact is interesting at all.
> >
> > Anybody have the blue material with visible metal?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Phil
> >
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