[meteorite-list] EETA 79001 and the Martian Atmosphere
From: Richard Montgomery <rickmont_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:42:37 -0800 Message-ID: <F577B9298D99401490051674C9AEEFEA_at_bosoheadPC> Hi List. (Sorry if this is a duplicate post.) I have the remnants of a 550gr Brahin slice that definitely has bubbles in the olivine in a few spots. Any comments? ----- Original Message ----- From: <cdtucson at cox.net> To: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] EETA 79001 and the Martian Atmosphere > Martin,List, > Interesting that you mention bubbles in Maskelynite. > I have a great picture taken by Tom Phillips of an amazing "River Of > Maskelynite With Bubbles" > Although this is from an unclassified meteorite it does check out pretty > well both visually in thin section but, the chemistry is also correct for > either a Lunar or a Martian meteorite, > I'm sure Blain won't mind me mentioning that; > At this Tucson Gem Show Blain Reed has acquired an amazing piece of > hardware. > It is called an XRF for X-ray Florescence. This is a hand held portable > gun like instrument that when held up to the rock gives you an average of > the chemistry it sniffs out of the rock. > Blain was kind enough to use this machine to collect reading from known > Lunar rocks in his collection (this way he knows they are in fact Lunar's) > With this info he can compare the Known data with new Candidates. This for > a small fee and it only takes about a minute. AMAZING . Blain rocks. > In this way he has determined that this rock I show here with the "river > Of Maskelynite and Bubbles" has a very good chance at being either Lunar > of Martian. Apparently they are quite similar in this way. > Although, The Numbers are dead on Lunar for this one. . > Not only are the bulk amounts correct but so, are the Ratios. Especially > the Fe/ Mn and so forth. > Please see the attached pics and share your opinion. > Any Scientists out there want to take a look? > I also have another that Tom Phillips photographed that also checks out > both Chemically and petrographically as Lunar or Martian but, with no > visible river yet? It looks like mostly Olivine? But this ones Fe/Mn is > definitely in the Martian Range. Very Cool. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/13030472 at N07/?saved=1 > > Any and all comments welcome. > Email for more pics. > Best regards, > Carl > Carl or Debbie Esparza > Meteoritemax > > > ---- Martin Altmann <altmann at meteorite-martin.de> wrote: >> Hi Walter, >> >> only a remark... for not being the same thing like with the ominous >> purple >> halite-crystals containing liquid water in Zag, >> which are described in literature - but so far noooooone of the >> collectors >> ever found one in any of their 175kgs of slices... :-) >> >> Those inclusions in the Martian shock glasses - you can really have them >> as >> a collector too!! >> >> The fresh-shergottite-series - NWA 2975/2986/4766 seq.. >> there the maskelynite is still so fresh, that it is translucent. >> So it's possible without special equipment and special preparation to >> spot >> these inclusions in the maskelynite with a simple microscope under low >> magnification in cut surfaces. >> >> And you know what? Here and there these maskelynite patches contain >> little >> bubbles! >> >> A while ago a collector loaded up a photo he made from such a bubble out >> of >> that NWA-series in the German forum. >> >> Fascinating isn't it? >> >> So, dear collectors, I'm sure many of you have samples form that Martian, >> let's hunt for bubbles! >> >> >> Best! >> Martin >> >> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com >> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von >> Walter >> Branch >> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2011 04:31 >> An: MeteorList >> Betreff: [meteorite-list] EETA 79001 and the Martian Atmosphere >> >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I feel like an idiot. >> >> I know that trapped atmospheric gases have been found in some martian >> meteorites but for some unexplained reason, I had always thought that the >> gases had been incorporated in the rock at the time of formation. I >> always >> wondered how gases from the martian atmosphere could have been trapped in >> a >> rock at the time it formed, particularly an igneous rock in an >> underground >> magma chamber. >> >> Well, thanks to William Cassidy, the man who founded ANSMET, I now >> realize >> my assumption was wrong. Cassidy makes it clear that gasses became >> trapped >> in martian rocks at the time of the impact which launched the rock from >> the >> surface. The rather lengthy quote below is from Cassidy's book >> "Meteorites, >> Ice and Antarctica" an excellent book (see more after the quote). >> >> >From pages 119-121 >> >> EETA 79001 was an important find for another reason. It contained proof >> that >> >> SNC meteorites come from Mars. This meteorite had been highly shocked >> during >> >> the impact that ejected it from the martian surface, and one of the shock >> effects was to produce pods of glass that had been melted from the >> constituent minerals of the meteorite by the transient heating generated >> by >> shock pressures. The melts that were formed were partly injected along >> cracks in the rock and partly retained as molten beads at the sites where >> they formed. Cooling occurred immediately behind the shock wave and the >> beads were chilled to glass before they could crystalize. Apparently the >> crater forming asteroid had built up a lense off compressed atmosphere in >> front of it during it's lengthy trajectory toward the surface of the >> planet. >> >> When it struck the surface it injected highly compressed air into the >> target >> >> rock, and some of this was trapped in the shock-melted inclusions. We >> know >> the composition of the martian atmosphere from measurements made by >> Viking >> Landers I and II. When some of the glass inclusions were picked out of >> EETA >> 79001 and remelted, the gave up their dissolved gases. These gasses when >> analyzed and corrected for slight terrestrial contamination, contained >> nitrogen and carbon dioxide in the same abundances as the atmosphere of >> Mars; they also had isotopes of argon, neon, , krypton, and xenon in the >> same abundances as does the martian atmosphere. This neat bit of >> detective >> work by a number of workers, for the first time tied a SNC meteorite >> directly to the planet Mars and, through this meteorite, to all the other >> meteorites. >> >> I love Cassidy's book. If you like meteorites in general, martian and >> lunar >> meteorites (like me) and are curious about the ANSMET program and you >> don't >> have a copy of this book, you are really missing out. The book is a gold >> mine of information regarding ANSMET. It is very readable, technical in >> some >> >> places, humorous in others and poignant in others. Some books I love >> holding >> >> and reading and this is one of those books. It is hardbound with glossy >> pages and nicely illustrated. I like the physical proportion of the book >> and >> >> I even like the dust jacket (I usually abhor dust jackets). >> >> Anyway, many thanks to Dr. Cassidy for clearing that up with me and >> thanks >> for writing such a wonderful book. >> >> -Walter Branch >> >> ______________________________________________ >> Visit the Archives at >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> ______________________________________________ >> Visit the Archives at >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > Received on Wed 09 Feb 2011 02:42:37 PM PST |
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