[meteorite-list] Help with Kunya-Urgench

From: The Tricottet Collection <tricottetcoll_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 07:00:24 +0000
Message-ID: <BLU117-W13771335D57D7386196BA8DDF50_at_phx.gbl>

Hi Henry, list,

my page on Kunya-Urgench, updated last weekend: http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/met_kunyaurgench.html
(but no slice pic, sorry)

ArnaudM

The Tricottet Collection of Natural History Specimens
(Minerals, Fossils & Meteorites)
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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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