[meteorite-list] AD - Another New Meteorite
From: Ruben Garcia <rubengarcia85382_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:19:04 -0700 Message-ID: <CAJet4mPtPF1J=jH_byS9xkV8mQh8oLj=mqubdQwc8eRZ-O+TqA_at_mail.gmail.com> Hi Anne, I can't make your link work....... On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Anne Black via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote: > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list -- Rock On! Ruben Garcia http://www.MrMeteorite.comReceived on Fri 20 Nov 2015 10:19:04 PM PST |
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