[meteorite-list] Meteor fragment lands in UW-Madison geoscience department

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:10:33 -0700
Message-ID: <4BC926A9.9080105_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Oops.. Sorry Steve. Walked out of the room in the middle of an email and
clicked send before reading the list...

Joe, Steve is right, if you look closely at that photo you can see the
lighter inclusions/clasts.

Regards,
Eric

On 4/16/2010 8:03 PM, Steve Witt wrote:
> Joe and List,
>
> If you look closely at the top of the stone that the Boudreaux boys found you can see characteristics similar to the stone that was at UW-Madison. I think the university stone just has more of the interior matrix showing.
>
> Don't forget the Park Forest fall. With P.F. there were two distinct litholigies and I saw many stones that appeared to be from two completely different falls.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
>
> Steve Witt
> IMCA #9020
> http://imca.cc/
>
>
> --- On Fri, 4/16/10, Joe Kerchner<skyrockmeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>> From: Joe Kerchner<skyrockmeteorites at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor fragment lands in UW-Madison geoscience department
>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 9:53 PM
>> To me the piece that terry's soons
>> were photographed with looks different than the hammer
>> stone. Is it possible that the person who sold it to him
>> pulled one over on him? Or is it just the photo that makes
>> it look different?
>> Best Wishes,
>> Joe kerchner
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Linton Rohr<lintonius at earthlink.net>
>> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 8:58 PM
>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor fragment lands in
>> UW-Madison geoscience
>> department
>>
>> Good luck, Joe!
>> And the rest of the gang, too!
>> Linton
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Joe Kerchner"<skyrockmeteorites at yahoo.com>
>> To:<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 6:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor fragment lands in
>> UW-Madison geoscience
>> department
>>
>>
>>
>>> Have to head home to coach a couple soccer games in
>>>
>> the morning, then ill
>>
>>> b heading back. I have some very good intel and
>>>
>> permission to hunt that
>>
>>> land tomorrow. Wish us luck, god be willing we will
>>>
>> recover some new
>>
>>> pieces soon.
>>> Best Wishes,
>>> Joe kerchner
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Meteorites USA<eric at meteoritesusa.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 8:10 PM
>>> To: Meteorite-list<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteor fragment lands in
>>>
>> UW-Madison geoscience
>>
>>> department
>>>
>>> "...UW-Madison meteorite experts Noriko Kita and
>>>
>> Takayuki Ushikubo used
>>
>>> a scanning electron microscope and X-ray spectrometer
>>>
>> to begin to
>>
>>> analyze the surface mineral composition of the rock.
>>>
>> They identified the
>>
>>> presence of magnesium, iron, and silica-containing
>>>
>> compounds, including
>>
>>> the common minerals olivine and pyroxene. They also
>>>
>> found iron-nickel
>>
>>> metal and iron sulfide, which are often seen in
>>>
>> primitive meteorites...."
>>
>>> Meteor fragment lands in UW-Madison geoscience
>>>
>> department
>>
>>> http://www.news.wisc.edu/17969
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Eric Wichman
>>>
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