[meteorite-list] Happy 10th Birthday Portales Valley

From: Dark Matter <freequarks_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:12:14 -0600
Message-ID: <822da19a0806141812qeba2675oba8bfbadfe714027_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Bernd and All,

For a close up view of PV, check out Tom's Micro Visions article on
it. I suspect that piece might be the PV with the finest polish in the
world.

Thanks Tom!

-Martin



On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 9:55 PM, <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de> wrote:
> Mike Farmer writes:
>
> "I found one stone, and bought many more for a total of more than 15 kilos."
>
> and: "Happy Birthday to one of my favorite meteorites"
>
>
> A very enthusiastic Mike Farmer sent me this mail on Wed, 22 Jul 1998:
>
> "Bernd, I just returned from the UofA where most of the analysis is being done.
> They loved this piece. It is quite obvious that this chondrite was smashed in
> a huge shock event and metal flowed into the stone crushed pieces. I wish they
> were all this nice! I had to pay over $...*/ gram for this slice and I will try
> to get another since it is so incredible."
>
> * amount canceled by me because I don't know if Mike wants to keep this private
>
> Best wishes from the happy owner of an 11.5-gram metal-poor slice (M. Farmer),
> a 3.9-gram metal-rich slice (M. Blood) and a PV thin section (M. Farmer),
>
> Bernd
>
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Received on Sat 14 Jun 2008 09:12:14 PM PDT