[meteorite-list] Its official! NWA 6291 "The King of Angrites" for sale -...

From: Jason Utas <meteoritekid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:17:41 -0700
Message-ID: <AANLkTikARawRvhnG1lOEOYTYoT9phblkm7s_7ZRMstBV_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hello Anne,

A beautiful example!

I'd like to stress the fact that I'm not trying to put Greg's Angrite
down in any way - it's just that there *are* other Angrites that
display translucent crystals (clearly)...and they probably aren't from
Mercury.

I know that the Hupe's seem to refute this claim in their ads,
but...take a look at that Melinda Hutson's article in the May 2008
Meteorite magazine. It's pretty concise, and makes some excellent
points. They're entitled to their opinion, but I know that if I had
any Angrite to sell, I wouldn't say it was even probably from Mercury.
 At most I'd say that it had been suggested, but that it didn't seem
likely based on the literature. I'd equate it to the ALH 84001 'life'
issue. There's no good proof, and there's plenty to go against the
theory.
Personal opinion, I guess.

It's still a beautiful, extremely rare meteorite/type that warrants
its own niche in any collection.

Regards,
Jason

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:09 PM, <Impactika at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> Jason,
>
> Will this one do? ? ?_http://www.impactika.com/DOrbVug.jpg_
> (http://www.impactika.com/DOrbVug.jpg)
>
> Taken in Sept. 2001 in Denver, in Eduardo's show room.
>
> Anne M. Black
> _http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/)
> _IMPACTIKA at aol.com_ (mailto:IMPACTIKA at aol.com)
> Vice-President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
> _http://www.imca.cc/_ (http://www.imca.cc/)
>
>
>
> In a message dated 7/21/2010 6:44:57 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> meteoritekid at gmail.com writes:
> Hello Greg, All,
>
> Sheesh...you might read that paragraph again. ?The Hupe's don't sell
> martian material with the statement "may contain traces of martian
> life." ?At least they didn't the last time I checked....
>
> And, yes, D'Orbigny contains cm-sized crystals of translucent, gemmy,
> pallasite-like olivine. ?They compose about 1% of ? the meteorite, by
> volume. ?I've seen some in some hand-sized specimens that E.T. had for
> sale a few years ago, but can't find any great photos online.
> Apparently Asu88 contains upwards of 10% similar crystals by volume
> (see article linked-to above), but I couldn't find any pictures of
> that one.
>
> The interesting thing about your Angrite is the fact that the
> translucent crystal is anorthosite. ?So far as I know, it's the first
> time that a translucent *anorthosite* crystal has been found in an
> Angrite.
>
> Best,
>
> Jason
>
>
Received on Wed 21 Jul 2010 09:17:41 PM PDT