[meteorite-list] Special: AD: New Mars-Fall Tissint - Polished Fullslices!

From: Graham Ensor <graham.ensor_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:05:54 +0000
Message-ID: <CAJkn+kZiKdEq0MoiK1JR+055A=1OLvmnYzYm4wbYS2YpwgGFVA_at_mail.gmail.com>

Beautiful meteorite in all ways....nice work,

Graham

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Chladnis Heirs
<news at chladnis-heirs.com> wrote:
> Dear community,
>
>
> Now we all were occupied with admiring the fragments and the rare
> individuals that new epoch-making fall yielded; we studied the exterior,
> were amazed about the variety of different fusion crusts, took a glance on
> the interior by means of broken sides or crust-free fragments.
> Now it is highest time to subject Tissint to the other viewing habits we are
> used to
> - and here we are proud to present now the first masterly prepared slices:
>
> And what for slices!
>
> http://www.chladnis-heirs.com/specials/tissint.html
>
>
> In principle here could end our Special - in leaving you alone in your awe.
>
>
> Well worth it was, that we pushed away our twinge of conscience to slice up
> one of the scarce perfect individuals, any collector would rip his arm off
> for. ?Look, how we were rewarded.
>
> See those fantastically pastel green olivine crystals, which strongly remind
> us of those in NWA 5789.
> Take a closer look, you'll find even a few single ones, which seems almost
> to change from opaque to translucent.
> They are sitting in a very accentuated matrix-grid, which is in some ways
> similar to Shergotty or Zagami, though finer and on a smaller scale. And
> finally those dramatic and huge melt pockets and maskelynite blotches.
>
> With all historical respect for the four other observed Martian falls,
> Tissint is macroscopically the most spectacular and the most aesthetical
> among the observed falls. For sure.
>
> Masterly polished by Stefan's craftsmanship, completely surrounded by fusion
> crust, with at best only here and there naturally a small chip missing, are
> these those adorable specimens, which also in later decades you'll take in
> your hands, with a silent and almost triumphal blitheness, to have been once
> so wise, to have saved these specimen just in the days of the birth of this
> so famous meteorite.
>
> And if you were one of the few lucky ones, who were able to gather one of
> the few complete individuals, such a fullslice is almost a must to add.
>
> (And those who weren't - watch the endcut, a perfect alternative
> ?or contact us for still a superb complete individual).
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Stefan & Martin
>
> Chladni's Heirs
> Munich - Berlin
> Fine Meteorites for Science & Collectors
>
> http://www.chladnis-heirs.com
>
>
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Received on Thu 26 Jan 2012 03:05:54 PM PST