[meteorite-list] Oriented Erg Chech To Fall in Love With

From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: 14 Mar 2008 18:14:11 UT
Message-ID: <DIIE.000000B7000027CE_at_paulinet.de>

Hello All,

There are now 6 Erg Chech pieces in my collection + an Erg Chech thin section.
The TS comes from Philippe Thomas, a 20.32-gram slice (IMB variety) comes
from Andi Gren, the other 5 specimens are all from Philippe Thomas and they are
all top quality, fusion-crusted pieces and are definitely "flight-marked".

Today I got my 11.46-gram individual (purchased on EBay from Philippe) and
this piece is clearly *flight-oriented* because it features conspicuous radial flow
lines with a roll-over lip and a warty rear side.

Where fusion crust has been spalled off, you can see distinct chondrules embedded
into the greyish lithology of the brecciated matrix.

There are plenty of thick, molten and solidified metal blebs and in a small crack
of the warty rear side you can even see shiny metal protruding through a tiny part
of this crack.

Philippe and L?a, thank you so much for this beauty!

Shakespeare in Love, ... no, Bernd
in love with his little, oriented
Erg Chech ;-)



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