[meteorite-list] Why carbonaceous chondrites? (A "thank you" to Mr. Horejsi)

From: Dark Matter <freequarks_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 20:51:45 -0600
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Thanks for the reads!

Here?s one of my favorites:

?The black velvet evening gown of melted L6 drapes gently over the
seductive curves of Zabrodje. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.?

https://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2005/June/Accretion_Desk.htm

-Martin

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 11:58 AM Michael Doran via Meteorite-list <
meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:

> Another excellent description -- Martin definitely has a way with words.
>
> The loaf of bread metaphor also comes into play when I try to describe to
> friends my preference for specimens that are "thin" end-cuts. They usually
> say, "Oh, like the heel of a loaf a bread?" -- I say yes, but also explain
> that in the meteorite collecting world, the "heel" is considered by some to
> be the most desirable piece.
>
> Eater of good bread (and collector of awesome meteorite "heels"),
>
> -- Michael
>
> Michael Doran
> Fort Worth, TX
>
>
> On Sunday, March 10, 2019, 10:49:10 AM CDT, Frank Cressy <
> fcressy at prodigy.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> Martin does have a great way of describing meteorites. My favorite was
> his way of describing the Cumberland Falls aubrite comparing an individual
> stone to a bread loaf, writing that many were sliced up like loaves of
> bread, resembling not "the rectangular blocks we Americans call bread, but
> the wonderful cushions that flow from European bakeries." He continued the
> metaphor, writing that "the oven of the Earth's atmosphere baked the crust
> on the enstatite-rich achondrite to golden brown perfection" that covered a
> brecciated, snowy-white interior filled with exotic herbs of chondritic
> inclusions and metal flake.
>
> His description certainly makes your mouth water. Maybe you'll soon
> obtain a slice of your own cosmic bread!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On ?Sunday?, ?March? ?10?, ?2019? ?06?:?54?:?08? ?AM? ?PDT, Michael Doran
> via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> My friends often ask me "What got you interested in meteorites?" I
> honestly don't have a good answer to that question. I do, however, know
> precisely when and how I was inspired to focus on carbonaceous chondrites.
>
> As a newbie to the hobby (cough, obsession), I was reading through back
> issues of Meteorite Times Magazine when inspiration struck. In a June 2011
> article about Nogoya, a CM2, Martin Horejsi wrote:
>
> "Gazing into a polished face of Nogoya is like staring into space
> through a telescope. Everywhere you look there are interesting
> features. Little galaxies, nebulas, constellations, planets, suns
> and moons orbit the stone."
>
> Up until that point, I'd considered CCs to be rather drab cousins to the
> bejeweled pallasites, sculptural irons, and multi-chondrule'd type 3 OCs.
> However as I looked at the accompanying photo in the article, I thought by
> gosh, he's absolutely right. How perfect is it that a window into the black
> interior of a CM2 meteorite can also be a window back out to the universe
> where it originated -- if only you have the imagination to see it. You may
> have to look a tiny bit deeper to see the beauty, but it's absolutely
> there. Anyway, that's what first hooked me on carbonaceous chondrites. Now
> I have my own CM2 specimen to gaze at in wonder. So, thank you, Mr.
> Horejsi!
>
> -- Michael
>
> [Resent to list after conversion to plain-text - I keep forgetting!]
>
> Michael Doran
> Fort Worth, TX
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