[meteorite-list] Estherville revisited

[tracy latimer]

I just got my new piece of Estherville from Anne over at Impactika.  Now 
that I have a piece of a mesosiderite that is large enough to show bigger 
details, I am kicking myself for not having gotten one before this!  My 
piece was the next piece off the mass from the previously discussed one, and 
it is spectacular.  There is a metal vein in it comparable to Portales 
Valley, with a crushed olivine crystal right next to it.  Next to that is 
another area of smaller metal blebs forming a 'bullseye' around another 
olivine crystal.  It looks like the metal rimmed chondrules you sometimes 
get in H class chondrites.  The slice is razor thin enough that the olivine 
is transparent.

It is drizzling here today, but I don't care.  This beauty and I have a date 
with my 20x scope.

Tracy Latimer

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