[meteorite-list] Mystery unclassified stone meteorite - what is it?

From: cdtucson at cox.net <*cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com*> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:41:35 -0500 Message-ID: <20100228164135.XEW4X.904763.imail_at_fed1rmwml37> · cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com

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Carl or Debbie Esparza
Meteoritemax
---- Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Hi Greg and List,
> 
> Here are two more photos showing the matrix with less glare.  The
> spots that look white in the photo are the metal flecks.  I looked at
> it with the 10x loupe and under a top-lit microscope at about 100x.
> The flecks are definitely metal.  Now that Jason mentions it, it does
> bear a passing resemblence to Bison.  I wish this stone was bigger, it
> was only about 18 grams before I cut it.  But I do have a couple of
> nice looking (but small) endcuts and slices of it.  It looks better
> unpolished.
> 
> http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj24/Meteoritethrower/Meteorites/breccia-dual/breccia-matrix-fleck.jpg
> 
> http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj24/Meteoritethrower/Meteorites/breccia-dual/breccia-matrix-fleck-2.jpg
> 
> I meant to comment on your previous post about screening uNWA for
> promising stones - thanks for the tips.  I tend to work under the same
> lighting in my work area and I use the same loupe and microscope setup
> every time.  I obviously don't have your experienced eye, but after
> looking through many many hundreds (probably thousands) of small
> non-descript stones, I am starting to develop a sense for what is
> unusual.  I'd put such small stones into a cigar box and after a
> couple of years, I had a large number of them.  When I finally bought
> the saw, I started cutting them open.  There was a lot of duds and
> boring ones that looked better on the outside than the inside.  But
> there was also a few pleasant surprises - one possible achondrite,
> this little breccia, an LL3.6 recently classified, and a couple more
> promising (but small) candidates.  Unfortunately, my best candidates
> are also some of my smallest, so most of them really aren't worth the
> trouble and expense of classifying - unless they turn out to be
> planetaries, which I haven't been that lucky yet.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> MikeG
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/26/10, Greg Hupe <gmhupe at htn.net> wrote:
> > Hey MikeG,
> >
> > Do you have a photo of the inside matrix without the glare to show metal
> > flakes?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Greg
> >
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
> > To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> > Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 6:12 PM
> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Mystery unclassified stone meteorite - what is it?
> >
> >
> >> Hi Listees!
> >>
> >> I have this oddball meteorite in my cabinet that I have had for a long
> >> time.  I liked the way the outside looked, so I kept it.  When I
> >> finally bought I saw, I cut this specimen open and was pleasantly
> >> surprised.  It's a real oddball - perhaps a breccia of some type.  The
> >> first photo doesn't show it well, but there is metal fleck present.
> >> Has anyone ever seen a specimen like this?  Can anyone take an
> >> educated guess as to what it might be?
> >>
> >> http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj24/Meteoritethrower/Meteorites/breccia-dual/breccia-2.jpg
> >>
> >> The outside of the stone -
> >>
> >> http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj24/Meteoritethrower/Meteorites/breccia-dual/breccia-outside.jpg
> >>
> >> I cut a small slice and polished it.  The brecciated features faded
> >> into the matrix and became very hard to see, but it made the sparse
> >> metal fleck easier to see when the specimen is tilted the right way,
> >> in this last photo -
> >>
> >> http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj24/Meteoritethrower/Meteorites/breccia-dual/breccia-iron.jpg
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> MikeG
> >>
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