[meteorite-list] AD: Special: Truly baffling & sensational Howardite - NWA 6709 - absolutely stunning and very fresh.

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:24:21 -0400
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW8wFL0XyW5=Q0_9reQTdfAxKCYDNm6G0geaRGw6KMf=iA_at_mail.gmail.com>

Wow! That is one of the most beautiful howardites I have ever seen.
Nice find. :)

The rainbox coloration is very odd. Was the stone cleaned at any time?

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 7/20/11, Chladnis Heirs <news at chladnis-heirs.com> wrote:
> Dear meteorite community,
>
> with this Special we have to introduce to you an enormous oddity.
> It is about a HED-meteorite of a kind, which we hadn't ever seen before in
> our careers before.
>
> It came in two stones, one of them was covered with a lush fusion crust,
> wonderfully structured by thick and oriented flowlines.
> And in some parts, that very crust displayed a gloss and a shine, iridescent
> in all colours of the rainbow;
> an effect, reminding almost to bismuth!
>
> Please take a look to the photos, where we tried to captured the effect:
> http://www.chladnis-heirs.com/new-meteorites/nwa6709.html
>
>
> The interior was no less a riddle for us.
> The distribution and sizes of the various fragments and clasts were unlike
> we had seen in any polymict HED before.
> A variety of clasts is of a kind, like we never had recovered in any Vesta
> meteorite. Please take a closer look to the slices and you will share our
> surprise.
>
> And a very few of these clasts develope due to their microscopically
> lamellae-texture a fire like an opal, if turned around in the light.
> The response to a magnet is very inhomogeneous within the slices,
> although no differences are visible to the eye
> and all in all the interior has a somewhat dull yellowish tint - although
> the material is very fresh - and that tint and the circumstances made us
> initially think, it might be diogenitic.
>
> It is under classification at Dr. Anthony Irving and the values say, that it
> is a shocked howardite.
>
> We crafted now a set of polished sliced of all sizes, to share this
> exceptional material with you.
> Please acknowledge that we have kept the price, despite of the for us so
> unique properties of the material, well affordable,
> for everybody staying able to add a specimen of this truly exceptional stone
> to his collection.
> And an addition it is, also for the most experienced veteran collector.
>
> Earlier today we had published the Special in the German forum, therefore
> not so many specimens are left.
>
> For the largest slice we can offer a discount as it is the only one, which
> isn't coplanar.
>
> And finally, the specimen named "piece #2", which we chose to illustrate
> best that rainbow-bismuth-gloss of the fusion crust on the first linked
> page, is available too. It weighs 119.2g and we're accepting offers.
>
> Here you are now:
> http://www.chladnis-heirs.com/specials/special-nwa6709.html
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Stefan & Martin
>
> Chladni's Heirs
> Munich - Berlin
> Fine Meteorites for Science & Collectors
>
> http://www.chladnis-heirs.com
>
>
>
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