[meteorite-list] NWA 8159 in Tucson

From: Carl Agee <agee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:57:46 -0700
Message-ID: <CADYrzhrp5M7sAmw_sm2F-rKVzhQDnQcH5j-x9iYC8ac8JyxQ0w_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ann,

I am in midst of preparing a full paper on NWA 8159 for peer-review.
In the meantime, here are some conference abstracts that have more
info than the MetBull entry:

http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2014/pdf/2036.pdf

http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2014/pdf/5397.pdf

It is a unique new martian meteorite type for a number of reasons, to
mention a few: age, shock, mineralogy, isotopes.

Carl
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On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Anne Black via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> I am curious.
> I did look up this martian, NWA 8159 in the Met. Bulletin, odd rock with characteristics of all 3 of the SNC, so what is it?
> An heterogeneous meteorite?
> The missing link between all 3 martians?
> A mixture of types, something like Almahata Sitta???
>
> I did read the description on the Met.Bulletin but is there more written about it? Any papers published yet?
> Did anyone take any pictures of that rock?
> Would any of that explain the surprising price of $15 000.00 a gram?
>
> Still curious.
>
> Anne M. Black
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