[meteorite-list] Mercury Meteorites - the short list

From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:01:47 -0400
Message-ID: <8CE220D11651F69-2134-46643_at_webmail-d177.sysops.aol.com>

That's a cop-out Mike! Hunting for that elusive Swift Hermean
meteorite you need to start picking up rocks and tossing the junky
unMercury ones ;-)

Courtesy of Jeff's magic database, in addition to the three I started
the list off with all having been proposed as possibly from Mercury in
the literature, there are 37 more meteorites which appear as ungrouped
achondrites to which you may want to add some E7's or better yet
discount those related to them. Some of these are appear easy to
eliminate if you read the blurbs. - just make a decent argument for
the ones you want and append the short list ... Listed from Zak?odzie
to Asuka they are:

Zak?odzie 1998 Poland 8.68 kg
Y-8307 1983 Antarctica 3.37 g
SaU 493 2009 Oman 134 g
SaU 402 2004 Oman 78 g
Sahara 03500 2003 (Sahara) 221 g
RBT 04255 2004 Antarctica 10.2 g
RBT 04239 2004 Antarctica 12 g
QUE 93148 1993 Antarctica 1.1 g
NWA 6704 2011 Algeria 6.6 kg
NWA 6698 2010 (NWA) 38.4 g
NWA 6693 2011 (NWA) 5.1 kg
NWA 6077 2008 (NWA) 1010 g
NWA 5644 2008 (NWA) 200 g
NWA 5400 2008 (NWA) 4.82 kg
NWA 5363 2008 (NWA) 2.46 kg
NWA 4901 2007 (NWA) 24 g
NWA 4741 2005 (NWA) 20 g
NWA 4587 2006 (NWA) 530 g
NWA 4518 2003 (NWA) 167 g
NWA 4301 2006 (NWA) 685 g
NWA 4284 2005 (NWA) 137 g
NWA 4042 2004 (NWA) 56.2 g
NWA 2993 2006 (NWA) 625 g
NWA 2976 2005 (NWA) 219 g
NWA 2968 2005 (NWA) 268 g
NWA 2907 2005 (NWA) 586 g
NWA 2635 2004 (NWA) 4.2 kg
NWA 2400 2003 (NWA) 136 g
NWA 2353 2004 (NWA) 315 g
NWA 1500 2000 (NWA) 3.3 kg
NWA 1058 2001 (NWA) 180 g
Divnoe 1981 Russia 12.7 kg
Dho 732 2002 Oman 17 g
Dho 500 2000 Oman 116 g
Dho 1441 2003 Oman 268 g
DAG 962 1998 Libya 130 g
A-881548 1988 Antarctica 110.2 g

Best wishes
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
To: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
Cc: Meteorite-List at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Fri, Aug 5, 2011 9:52 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury Meteorites - the short list


Hi Doug and List,

Don't forget all of the oddball, one-off, ungrouped meteorites that
come from unknown parent bodies. There are dozens (if not a hundred
or more) such meteorites that do not neatly fit into any of the
official classes. It is possible that our Mercury candidate might
come from that motley group of ungroupeds. ;)

When they find a meteorite from Venus, they will name it after me. -
MIMMW

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 8/5/11, MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com> wrote:
> Hello again Mercury Nornoids,
>
> Physics, opinions and biases aside ... can we build a concise list of
> Mercury meteorite candidates already in our collections (at least
> wistfully) and play a game to see if we can speculate on them one by
> one - before the scientific press - with information from MESSENGER -
> as candidate meteorites from Mercury? Or, better yet, not eliminate
> one or more ... ;-) ?
>
> 1. Bencubbinites
> 2. Angrites
> 3. GRA 06128 & 06129
> 4. NWA 011 and pairings
> 5. Mercury Meteor (parent body Mercury or Ford?)
>
> Sunnyside up,
> Doug
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