[meteorite-list] AD - Another New Meteorite

From: Bigjohn Shea <bigjohnshea_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 04:18:09 +0100
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The link doesn't seem to work Anne.

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On 11/20/15 at 10:14 PM, Anne Black via Meteorite-list wrote:

> My turn to announce a new meteorite!
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> Not a new fall, but a new meteorite (and all meteorites are really falls, how else would they get here????)
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> CLIFFORD, from Colorado.
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> A single stone, weighing some 11.36kg, was found sometimes in the early 1960s in rangeland in central Colorado while looking
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> 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
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> stayed there until 1997 when Gary Curtiss, a Colorado geologist and meteorite collector happened to go by and spotted it. He
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> 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!
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> Until very recently, when I finally convinced him to get a few slices cut and made available ot collectors.
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> Clifford is an ordinary chondrite, type L6, Shock S3, Weathering W2, with some large chondrules, metal blebs, and odd tiny vugs.
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> I have now 11 slices at very reasonable, collector-friendly, non-gouging prices!
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> Listed right here: http://www.impactika.com/clifford.html
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> Any questions, just ask!
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> Anne M. Black
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> www.IMPACTIKA.com
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> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
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Received on Fri 20 Nov 2015 10:18:09 PM PST