[meteorite-list] New American Iron find

From: Craig Moody <meteoritesnorth_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:16:30 -0500
Message-ID: <SNT133-W357131F2D3B336E5829B4ECC2F0_at_phx.gbl>

Hello Listees, and a belated Happy New Year.
Recently, I received a rather unusual 600 gram 'rock' from a friend on Geoff Notkin's Club Space Rock. He sent it to me so that I could have a closer look at it and give him my opinion. He had sanded a small area and noticed that was metallic. METALLIC?? The thing is solid iron! I filed that area flat, and polished it up and took the Nitol to it. (It was initially found in Elmore Co. Alabama around 1920). After seeing a Widmanstatten structure appear, I felt like a kid at Christmas! The pattern seems to be that of a medium Octahedrite, similar to that of a Campo, but smaller. It is now going to be sent to Dr. John Wasson via Geoff Notkin and Dr. Laurence Garvie for classification.
Here is the link to my facebook album for it. Any comments would be most welcome.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151192014720706.437610.632430705&type=1&l=24ed65fbf7
Cheers all!
Craig
IMCA 6276
Received on Sun 13 Jan 2013 01:16:30 AM PST