[meteorite-list] AD - Another New Meteorite

From: Anne Black <impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 22:14:59 -0500
Message-ID: <1512809a37e-79d7-906f_at_webprd-a14.mail.aol.com>

My turn to announce a new meteorite!

Not a new fall, but a new meteorite (and all meteorites are really falls, how else would they get here????)

CLIFFORD, from Colorado.

A single stone, weighing some 11.36kg, was found sometimes in the early 1960s in rangeland in central Colorado while looking
 for arrowheads. He brought it home but thinking that it was just an odd looking rock he added it to his wife's rock garden. And it
 stayed there until 1997 when Gary Curtiss, a Colorado geologist and meteorite collector happened to go by and spotted it. He
 immediately recognized it for what it was, bought it and had it classified by Alan Rubin at UCLA. But then he kept most of it for himself!
 Until very recently, when I finally convinced him to get a few slices cut and made available ot collectors.
 Clifford is an ordinary chondrite, type L6, Shock S3, Weathering W2, with some large chondrules, metal blebs, and odd tiny vugs.

I have now 11 slices at very reasonable, collector-friendly, non-gouging prices!
Listed right here: http://www.impactika.com/clifford.html

Any questions, just ask!

Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com
Received on Fri 20 Nov 2015 10:14:59 PM PST