[meteorite-list] First fragment of Chelyabinsk meteorite raised from bottom of Lake Chebarkul

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:51:59 -0400
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The thick mud at the bottom of Lake Chebarkul is surely very oxygen-poor.

But, the stone will have been completely saturated now, like a sponge.

So the minute they remove it from the mud, the oxidation will begin
rapidly, unless they undertake measures to stabilize it.

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 9/24/13, Mark Ford <mark.ford at southernscientific.co.uk> wrote:
> Yeah Looks like a tiny little fragment?? And way too fresh...
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> Shouldn't that fragment be much more rusted if it came from the bottom of
> the lake?
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> I've seen ugly fragments on eBay that looked much worse, and they weren't
> sitting at the bottom of a lake for 6 months.
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> ???
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> Best regards,
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> MikeG
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> On 9/24/13, karmaka <karmaka-meteorites at t-online.de> wrote:
>> The first specimen was raised from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul this
>> morning:
>>
>> http://kp.ua/daily/240913/415052/
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>> http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fkp.ua%2Fdaily%2F240913%2F415052%2F&sandbox=1
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>> More to come...
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>> Martin
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