[meteorite-list] Polished Butts - pics of mine... lol.

From: Greg Catterton <star_wars_collector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:50:13 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <174754.90715.qm_at_web46407.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Anne is correct.
Here is a few pictures of one of my polished butts...

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c165/jedisdiamond/DSCF5309-1.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c165/jedisdiamond/DSCF5310-1.jpg

I keep them after thin section making, its a good way to pass around meteorites to kids to hold and check out.


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--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Impactika at aol.com <Impactika at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Impactika at aol.com <Impactika at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Polished Butts - Toliet humor aside, what exactly are th...
> To: Jimski47 at aol.com, meteoritemike at gmail.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, March 28, 2011, 5:12 PM
> No toilet humor here.
> It is a chunk of meteorite encased in epoxy, polished, and
> from which
> thin-sections are cut.
> I prefer to call them "cores".
> Less possibility of misunderstanding.
>
> Anne M. Black
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> President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
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>
> In a message dated 3/28/2011 2:59:26 PM Mountain Daylight
> Time,
> Jimski47 at aol.com
> writes:
> My guess would be that it's a polished endcut.
>
> Jim K
>
>
> In a message dated 3/28/2011 3:54:41 P.M. Central Daylight
> Time,?
> meteoritemike at gmail.com
> writes:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have seen several? references to "polished butts" in
> the Met
> Bulletin.? For example, from? this recent entry
> (NWA 6580) approved
> yesterday -
>
> "Type specimens? available at Cascadia include 1 piece
> originally 20.0
> g, from which one? polished thin section and one
> polished butt were
> made. Thompson holds the? main mass."
>
> I did the usual Google Search ("polished butt") to find
> out? what this
> was, and you don't want to know what the results of that
> search? were.
> Let's just say, that is has nothing to do with meteorites
> or? thin
> sections.
>
> So I have to ask the List - what is a polished? butt?
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
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