[meteorite-list] NWA 8159 in Tucson

From: Carl Agee <agee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:58:33 -0700
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That would be "Anne" -- lol
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On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Carl Agee <agee at unm.edu> wrote:
> 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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> Carl B. Agee
> Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics
> Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
> MSC03 2050
> University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque NM 87131-1126
>
> Tel: (505) 750-7172
> Fax: (505) 277-3577
> Email: agee at unm.edu
> http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/
>
>
>
> 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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