[meteorite-list] cleaning Millbillillie ?

From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 21:01:55 +0100
Message-ID: <D04DB84BDBC649F7AA85661EED212F30_at_thinkcentre>

Hello Alex,

I completely agree with you. To continue with Australia'a laterite-red:
would anyone like to clean this Henbury iron on
Dr. Svend Buhl's website?

http://www.niger-meteorite-recon.de/img_inventar/Meteorit%20Henbury.jpg

Can't imagine. In any case, I wouldn't. Its time on the surface of our
planet is definitely part of a
meteorite's destiny.

My best, Matthias


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Seidel" <gsac at gmx.net>
To: "tett" <tett at rogers.com>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>;
<bobl at peaktopeak.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] cleaning Millbillillie ?


>> I agree that there is a special characteristic that would be lost if the
>> red staining were to be removed from a Millbillillie individual.
>> However,
>> it is also great to have meteorites pristine with no terrestrial
>> alteration.
>> The priciest Millbillillies are those that with dark black glassy crusts.
>
> No, a meteorite like Millbillillie should be looked at in a much more
> subtle way!
>
> It fell in 1960, and was collected no earlier than 10 years later! Talking
> about
> Millbillillie is exciting in many respects, as it e. g. displays different
> textures on
> cut slices, but talking about exterior surface, I would always prefer a
> piece with
> natural (laterite) patina over a piece which was somehow "cleaned" (..if
> this were
> possible..) or has only got some more or less glossy black crust alone
> rather than
> the brownish-reddish surface stains that are so very *typical* for this
> meteorite,
> and are part of its "character", so to say...!
>
> You are right insofar as, when we are talking about may be fresh Eucrites
> or fresh
> Howardites, we are looking and longing for fresh glossy black crust in the
> first place,
> as will be the case with e. g. the early collected pieces of a historical
> fall like Stannern,
> or some rare other finds and falls, but things are a quite a bit different
> with a fall like
> Millbillillie, even if it occured as late as 1960, considered a "fresh"
> fall....
>
> Well, nothing but my two (Euro-)Cents,
> Alex
> Berlin/Germany
>
>
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