[meteorite-list] QUESTION- Al Mahbas

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 08:02:09 -0600
Message-ID: <8253E3B2-3017-484F-8EF0-DAE2DEE8DF57_at_meteoriteguy.com>

I submitted the Al Mahbas pallasite to Ted Bunch many years ago, like so many other meteorites that I submitted type specimens for, it vanished. I went to the strewn field and found pieces myself, there is a story about it on my website. It came out later under several different nwa numbers. should be called al mahbas as I confirmed the location by finding pieces myself before being chased away by Algerian border guards.
Sadly a nice and very rare pallasite was dumped into the nwa batch names.
Michael Farmr

Michael Farmer

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On May 7, 2011, at 7:11 AM, "John Lutzon" <jl at hc.fdn.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I recently posted pics (EoM) of a slice of Al Mahbas and listed it as NWA 2683. As i noticed that no one else has done the same;--is this appropriate or did i jump the gun?
>
> Thanks
>
> John
> IMCA #1896
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Received on Sat 07 May 2011 10:02:09 AM PDT