[meteorite-list] Help with Kunya-Urgench

From: Warren Sansoucie <warren3174_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 20:02:16 -0500
Message-ID: <BAY132-W11FC054AAE61D5C302C459D3F50_at_phx.gbl>

Hello ,
 
Here are some links that may get you started. Odd to me that it's touted as a classified NWA and then you are given that name as the possible identifier. Who trades meteorites in this manner?? He may as well have found the 'Do Not Remove Under Penalty Of Law' tag under the van's seat.
 
http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php?code=12379
 
http://www.mail-archive.com/meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com/msg55471.html
 
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2000/pdf/1397.pdf
 
 
http://web.ru/conf/khitariada/1-2006/informbul-1_2006/planet-5e.pdf
 
The ref to the 2007 Metlist is interesting. Post us some pictures of your stone.
 
Warren Sansoucie
 

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> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:37:22 -0700
> From: hxmendoza at yahoo.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Help with Kunya-Urgench
>
> Okay so here is my first help request.
> A couple of weeks ago at the spring Denver gem and mineral show, I
> bought a supposed NWA classified meteorite from a dealer (whom I will
> not name as yet). The weather was awful that entire weekend and he
> hadn't gotten everything out if his van because if it. So the label
> for that endpiece was misplaced. I went back all three days and he had
> not found it yet. So we swapped info and he said he would try to find
> the label for it well as of today no luck. So I'm starting to think
> that my classified NWA that I paid a little over $1.00 a gram for is
> inevitably just going to stat an UNWA that I therefore overpaid for.
> But I called him a little while ago and now he says he found one
> orphaned label that says Kunya-Urgench so he thinks it might be that
> but he's not sure.
> There are very few pics of Kunya slices on the internet. Of the
> polished faces I was able to find only one looked like mine, on the
> Met Bulletin. The rest seemed different. Those had alot of white or
> gray in the matrix, whereas mine has a predominantly orangish/ tan
> matrix with lots of dark brown flecks interspersed throughout. So I'm
> doubtful but can't quite rule it out because of the one little
> pictured slice that does look like mine.
>
> So, does anyone have any Kunya-Urgench, or have any experience with it
> that if I sent you pics of my endpiece you could help me rule out or
> in this murky ID? Oh and the outside crust looks like what you see on
> NWA's in color and texture.
>
> HELP!!
>
> On a good note. I did get a nice Crusted fragment of Trilby Wash from
> him. Larry Sloan was there and verified that one.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henry Mendoza
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
>
>
>
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