[meteorite-list] Baking a fresh meteorite

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Heating could drive off volitiles or breakdown organic compounds depending on the temperature.  For bubbles in halite crystals heating enough to vaproize the liquid could rupture the crystal and the primoral liquid could be lost.   None of this would be observable to the ordinary collector, but there could be a definate loss of scientific data.   I certainly wouldn't recommend it before samples had been removed for scientific purposes.

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Eric Olson
ELKK Meteorites
http://www.star-bits.com


> hello,
> 
> Bill Allen of the A/CC website (www.hohmanntransfer.com) is sollliciting
> some comments on the advice apparently given to the New Zealand
> meteorite-through-roof owners, to bake their meteorite at 100C.
> 
> Is there some opinion on this: could it be harmfull, or on the contrary is
> it a wise thing to do indeed?
> 
> I must admitt I had never heard of such a suggestion before.
> 
> I believe someone already mentioned it could destroy halite crystals?
> 
> - Marco
> 
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> Marco Langbroek
> Leiden, the Netherlands
> 52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84)
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