[meteorite-list] Question about oriented meteorites

Jason Utas meteoritekid at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 00:57:00 EST 2004


Hello Rob and All,
In Response to this: 

>> "The object weighing 47.015 kg with a 4.75 specific gravity was
>> fallen..."
...
> it could still be another type of meteorite (meso or pallasite?)
>Rob [Matson]

A mesosiderite or pallasite seems pretty improbable -- if the density
of iron is 7.874g/cm^3,
then either this meteorite has verrry little iron in it and is a stony 
or it's made of half iron and half air (or some other nearly
weightless substance [yeah right]).

The Kid



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