[meteorite-list] South Pole Meteorite - ALH761 a.k.a. ALHA76001

From: Jeff Grossman <jgrossman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:19:51 -0400
Message-ID: <48F71547.5090309_at_usgs.gov>

I've been told another scientist that there is a better candidate that
this could be. ALHA76009 was a huge find with many pieces. The stones
had nice black fusion crust. Some of these pieces "went missing" after
they were brought back from the field. It too is L6. I tried to see
how we know that the ebay stone was H, but the listing is gone.

jeff

bernd.pauli at paulinet.de wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>
> "Or... it is a clever scam, designed to fool us Antarctic research wannabes."
>
> Something else that makes it a "suspicious" offer: ALHA76001 clearly is
> an L6 chondrite whereas the one on EBay was offered as an H chondrite!
>
> A typo? Maybe ...
>
> Best from
>
> "Doubting Bernd"
>
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