[meteorite-list] John’s Interesting Iron Meteorite, NWA 2677

[MARK BOSTICK]

Hello John and list,

I recently picked up a small piece of NWA 2677 from John Birdsell.  An 
interesting iron meteorite of 100g. It has been provisionally classified as 
a “IIICD (aka: IAB subclass LM).”, noted from John’s website. I am not 
really an iron expert, but I guess that means fine octahedrite. The 
meteorite itself is somewhat confusing, as the nickel content doesn’t seen 
to line up well with any of the IIICD’s except the Ataxites I suppose, but 
this has a obvious bold octahedrite pattern.

I managed a pretty good photo of my slice on my collection page. (I now have 
studio lights and equipment...which also of course means, my camera is 
giving me problems now...:-(

http://www.meteoritearticles.com/colnwa2677.html

Also, John asked about possible pairs.  Doing a little research on the iron 
I have found the following meteorite classified somewhat close and location 
of find possibly close.  Could this be a possible pair?

Hassi-Jekna, IIICD, found El Golea, Algeria in 1890, TKW 1890, Bandwidth 
.47mm.

Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
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