AW: WG: [meteorite-list] Classification question

[David Weir]

Jörn Koblitz wrote:
> 
> Correct. It simply mean that no finer classification has been done. It's just a bit more work to get the subtype classification. A 3.0 is actually the most primitive, most unequilibrated and rarest type of unequilibrated ordinary chondrite.
> 
> BTW: A petrologic type 2 has never been assigned to any ordinary chondrite. Only to carbonaceous chondrites.
> 
> Jörn

Hi Jörn,

It was proposed in a paper I read a while back that Semarkona may be
consistent with a petrographic type 2 classification due to aqueous
alteration. I guess it's possible.

David