[meteorite-list] AD-New Taouz fall stones

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:05:57 -0400
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=pAHEOYjTbTM+4FTra1vH0nO5-sUZ+UqQR7paR_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Gary,

Gorgeous stones with nice aesthetics. Nice score. :)

I'll be interested to hear what the classification is. Have you heard
yet if anyone has submitted a sample?

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 8/16/10, Gary Fujihara <fujmon at mac.com> wrote:
> Aloha listoids,
>
> At 3:00 am in the area of Taouz, 70km southeast of Erfoud, many people
> witnessed a very bright bolide accompanied by a sonic boom and fragmentation
> event. For lack of a better name, and with all due respect to my Moroccan
> friends I am calling these Taouz fall stones, although the fall was not in
> the Moroccan town of Taouz, and actually over the border in Algeria. Nomads
> recovered the meteoritic material in Algeria and transported over the border
> to Morocco, where dealers were able to acquire, and from whom I purchased
> them August 9, 2010.
>
> A limited supply is available, but I expect to offer more individuals and
> slices in the future. These chondrites have very fresh, velvety black fusion
> crusts, with a light matrix with some metal inclusions visible through the
> crust, and magnetic susceptibility seems to indicate a LL type
> classification, but that is only my opinion. Price is $8/g
>
> http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/Taouz.html
>
> BTW, does anyone on the list know if a type sample of this fall was
> submitted for analysis toward classification?
>
> Gary Fujihara
> Big Kahuna Meteorites (IMCA#1693)
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