[meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Monze

[bernd.pauli at paulinet.de]

Hello List,

Well, yesterday MexicoDoug announced the 54th anniversary of the
Monze L6 chondrite. As it happens, I received a beautiful 2.31-gram
slice of Monze a few days ago from Michael Cottingham. It has crisp,
fresh, black fusion crust on two edges and contains an interesting
but weird-looking dark clast which may be due to shock-darkening.

He also had a sizeable chunk of Monze on EBay but this one is gone.
Congratulations to the lucky (and surely happy) buyer !

Monze is a beautiful FeNi-rich meteorite and specimens are available
for example from Anne Black or also from Eric Twelker. Especially Eric
Twelker's #MON493-2 specimen will surely make your mouth water:

Anne Black's specimen can be viewed at:

http://www.impactika.com/

Go to birthday meteorites for Oct 05 - there you'll see a 53.24-gram slice.

Eric's specimens are here:

http://www.meteoritemarket.com/MON.htm

Happy viewing!

Bernd