[meteorite-list] AD Mount Tazerzait

From: Andreas Gren <info_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:43:26 +0200
Message-ID: <c00294m5FHHm8D.RZmta_at_mo-p00-ob.rzone.de>

Dear List members,

I would like to offer some slices of the nice L5 Chondrite Mount Tazerzait.
A single stone of 110kg fall at August 21 1991 in Tahoua / Niger
Mount Tazerzait is one of the rare porous Meteorites. Holes up to 1mm are
visible with the naked eye.
Holes , complete and fragmented Chondrules makes a genesis in micro gravity
possible.

For more information, please take a look at Svend's outstanding report about
Mount Tazerzait:
http://www.niger-meteorite-recon.de/en/Meteorite_Mount_Tazerzait.html

If You are subscriber of MAPS you might remember the article:
 "Incompletely compacted eqilibrated ordinary chondrites"
from November 2009 issue.
In this article Mount Tazezait and it's porosity was exactly examinated.
The porosity is specified with 12,6 % +/- 1,0%

Parts of the article can be found here
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2009/pdf/1670.pdf


Other meteorites showing similar texture are Baszovka and Tjerebon, Tjerebon
is usually priced at around 30$/g , Baszovka , if available, at 200$/g and
up.

One side is polished, one side is grinded.

Please ad 5$ for shipping to any place in the world.


35.24g 120$
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_3_1.jpg
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_3_2.jpg

35.63g 120$
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_4_1.jpg
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_4_2.jpg

41.44g 140$
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_5_1.jpg
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_5_2.jpg

57.49g 190$
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_6_1.jpg
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_6_2.jpg

End cut with crust 67.22g 245$
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_9_1.jpg
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_9_2.jpg
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_9_3.jpg
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_9_4.jpg

20.78g 75$
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_10_1.jpg
http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Mount_Tazerzait_10_2.jpg

Thanks for looking
Andi

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Received on Tue 15 Jun 2010 02:43:26 PM PDT