[meteorite-list] Photo of a K-chondrite / Could this be one of the rarest meteorites found?

From: Jason Utas <meteoritekid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:32:35 -0800
Message-ID: <93aaac890911171832t1247e9eet1cd03b02bd686425_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hello Sonny, All,
I've often thought about such a term - "the rarest meteorite."
The rarest meteorite would of course be smallest ungrouped meteorite,
for one could feasibly conceive of a 1-2g unique meteorite. When a
new type is named, however, a hype generally surrounds it - rather
like the olivine diogenite craze of a few years ago, or the confusion
surrounding Bencubbinites, and other poorly defined types of
meteorites.
The simple fact of the matter is that there meteorites are too often
categorized by our current system into associations and groups into
which they fit rather poorly; Jeff Grossman states as much in the last
thread surrounding the poor chemical and isotopic relationships
between many basaltic meteorites deemed "eucrites."
But regardless of this fact, a simple truth remains. There are
countless ungrouped meteorites and several Kakangari-type meteorites,
so while they may be one of the least common "types," they are by no
means examples of the "rarest" meteorite known.
Regards,
Jason

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:12 PM, <wahlperry at aol.com> wrote:
> Hi Bernd and list,
>
> ?Would this be one of the rarest meteorites ever found? If not, what
> meteorite would be?
>
> Thanks,
> Sonny
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
> To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Sent: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 1:12 pm
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Photo of a K-chondrite
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> Hi Greg and List,
>
> Hardly any photos of Kakangaris exist. You'll find one on David
> Weir's excellent website: http://www.meteoritestudies.com/
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> Click on chondrites and then scroll down to Kakangari!
>
> Thin section pics of Kakangari can be found here (on pages 202-205):
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> D.S. LAURETTA, M. KILLGORE (2005) A Color Atlas of Meteorites in Thin
> Section
> (Golden Retriever Publications and Southwest Meteorite Press, ISBN
> 0-9720472-1-2, 301 pp.).
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> Best wishes,
>
> Bernd
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