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

From: Edwin Thompson <etmeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:31:04 +0000
Message-ID: <BAY168-W42D540C15421D0A5763CD9D14C0_at_phx.gbl>

Hello Mike, in a word, yes. Patrick and I have 538 grams of small, fresh individuals that are most likely paired with those owned by Chladnis Heirs. They have been studied and classified at UCLA. This list forum is beginning to become a great venue for visually pairing meteorites. Since as a buyer I am always told that what I am buying is "all there is to be had" 'the list' is proving to be a very good and swift way to prove that there is more to be had in almost any case. As with our main mass of Berthoud eucrite, if there are any tenacious meteorite hunters living near Berthoud there may someday be found the fragment that obviously broke from the main mass found where it was seen to fall some years ago. Another good example of visually pairing an interesting meteorite would be our NWA 6693 and Greg Hupe's meteorite; NWA 6704. With regards to this howardite we acquired 25 nice individuals totaling 538 grams and we gave a nice 38 gram complete stone to UCLA for classification in late February. We have not tr
ied to sell any of it yet and now that Chladnis Heirs are marketing theirs we will continue to hold onto ours for trading and offer it for sale at a later date.

 
Cheers, E.T.
 


> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:48:05 -0400
> From: meteoritemike at gmail.com
> To: news at chladnis-heirs.com
> CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Special: Truly baffling & sensational Howardite - NWA 6709 - absolutely stunning and very fresh.
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> I didn't mean to impeach the meteorite, I was just curious.
>
> This is indeed a mystery. Have any scientists offered or agreed to
> look at it? Perhaps hit the rainbow area with the microprobe or SEM?
>
> Aesthetically speaking, it's gorgeous and looks like Mother of Pearl. :)
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
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> On 7/20/11, Chladnis Heirs <news at chladnis-heirs.com> wrote:
> > No, it's natural!
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Galactic Stone & Ironworks [mailto:meteoritemike at gmail.com]
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2011 23:24
> > An: Chladnis Heirs
> > Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Special: Truly baffling & sensational
> > Howardite - NWA 6709 - absolutely stunning and very fresh.
> >
> > 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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