[meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there

Thu Apr 7 13:35:33 EDT 2005

Nicely done Dave!!!!!!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Freeman" <dfreeman at fascination.com>
To: "Graham Christensen" <voltage at telus.net>; "Robert Verish" 
<bolidechaser at yahoo.com>; "meteorite-list" 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out 
there


> Dear Bob, Graham,  and list;
> I should entitle this thread "treatise on common colored stone".
> Throughout my rock involved history, I have come to the  conclusion that 
> picking up colored Earthly trinkets is extremely healthy for our physics. 
> From the inquisitive child-like mind, we note the different and unusual. 
> We strive to be different and in that, collect the different.  The mind of 
> the collector, whether young and highly inquisitive, or mature and 
> studious all tend to look for the odd, the different, the "non-normal". 
> This thread of  daring has been the spark to inventors in our culture, 
> that all apples are red, what's with the green one symbolism.
> As we evolve to master scientists in our own amateur way, we all must not 
> forget the pretty rock, the odd rocks that don't fit the mold, the mini 
> cooper of the mineral world if you will as collecting non common specimens 
> is a learning process for the mind.  Growing out from the norm, being 
> meteorites in our minds eye, is added to by the excitement of an unusual 
> specimen of a different nature.
> It truly adds to our world of appreciation to hastily grab up that odd 
> rock as if we were all self reserved to only collecting the norm, it would 
> be a very boring and unstimulating world in deed.  It is always better to 
> arrive home with special, unusual rocks than to return home empty handed 
> from a day of searching for manna from heaven and to have arrive a little 
> short with an empty sack.
>
> Treatise your rocks with compassion!
>
> Dave Freeman
> Rock Springs, WY
>
> Graham Christens wrote:
>
>> Brother Bob, that is a fine specimen of probably exactly what I have and 
>> I'm glad to see I'm not the only one picking up every odd coloured rock 
>> and dragging it home. Thanks for showing that.
>>
>>> "And here is an "in-situ" image showing where I found my green rock"
>>
>>
>> Haha! If only!
>>
>> I can probably borrow someone's grinder maybe tomorrow or dig though some 
>> boxes and find my dremel tool to cut off a piece. I agree that it's hard 
>> to tell with a rough stone like that. Later this month a professor of 
>> martian geology at the University of Alberta is taking me on a tour of 
>> the meteorite collection there so I will take this rock along when I go 
>> and see what he thinks as well.
>>
>>> "Wouldn't I be emabarassed if I was wrong, and my "wrong" wasn't?"
>>
>>
>> Nope, I would imagine that you would be too busy being ecstatic about 
>> pulling off the impossible...again!
>>
>> Oh well, all is not lost. I DID find a chunk of garnet today :-) (at 
>> least I think that's what it is)
>> http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter/garnet.jpg
>>
>> Seeing as how it's 7 AM, I think it's about time I went to bed.
>> Goodnight all and happy hunting!
>>
>> Green rock picker-upper 4 life,
>> Graham
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Graham Christensen
>> voltage at telus.net
>> http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter
>> msn messenger: majorvoltage at hotmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Verish" 
>> <bolidechaser at yahoo.com>
>> To: <voltage at telus.net>
>> Cc: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral" 
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 6:00 AM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there
>>
>>
>>> Hello Brother Graham and List,
>>>
>>> http://marzmeteorite.tripod.com/mars-rocks/2mars1not.jpg
>>>
>>> As you can tell from the above image, Brother Graham
>>> and I belong to the same fraternity - The Fraternal
>>> Order of Green Rock Picker-Uppers.
>>>
>>> And here is an "in-situ" image showing where I found
>>> my green rock:
>>>
>>> http://marzmeteorite.tripod.com/mars-rocks/MRF04996.jpg
>>>
>>> Actually, Graham, my story is much shorter than yours.
>>> I found my little shergo-not just last week, and only
>>> a few miles from my backyard.  It was still sitting on
>>> top of my monitor when I read your message and saw
>>> your great looking image.  It prompted me to share my
>>> image with you.  And, as in your image, I placed a
>>> small slice of DaG 476 in front of my Mars-wannabe.
>>> For added effect, I placed a larger slice of the DaG
>>> 670 stone to the right of my m-wrong.
>>>
>>> As a rule, I don't "hazard a guess" about a rock-type
>>> based solely on an image.  Too many times I've had to
>>> change my opinion about a rock-type after examining a
>>> cut surface.  So, if you show me the inside of your
>>> rock, I'll show you the inside of my rock!   ;-)
>>>
>>> It's true.  I haven't cut my little rock, yet.  And to
>>> be truthful, I haven't had it examined by an "expert",
>>> so I can't say with 100% certainty that my rock is a
>>> "shergo-not".
>>>
>>> Wouldn't I be emabarassed if I was wrong, and my
>>> "wrong" wasn't?
>>>
>>> Bob V.
>>>
>>> --------------- Original Message ----------------
>>>
>>> [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology
>>> experts out there
>>> Graham Christensen voltage at telus.net
>>> Thu Apr 7 05:21:16 EDT 2005
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello list
>>>
>>> I've had this rock sitting on my kitchen table since
>>> last year when I picked it up along the side of the
>>> road while out for a walk. It is a fairly smooth
>>> green rock with black bits in it and it looks somewhat
>>> like my DAG 476
>>> shergottite but it's a slightly lighter shade of
>>> green. I have yet to grind an end off to see what the
>>> inside looks like but there are a couple chips
>>> out of it and it looks about the same on the inside
>>> with the green part being fine grained and the black
>>> bits are individual crystals. I doubt that it is
>>> meteoritic (there is no trace of fusion crust) but I
>>> was wondering if it might be similar to a shergottite
>>> but of terrestrial origin.
>>>
>>> Here is a pic of it:
>>> http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter/dag476andunidentified.jpg
>>> The small slice in the forground is my DAG 476 and the
>>> big rock is of course the rock in question.
>>>
>>> I have been collecting rocks on and off in this area
>>> since I was a kid and I haven't seen anything like it
>>> but that doesn't mean much. I live in Alberta, Canada,
>>> where most of the rocks you find lying on the ground
>>> were brought down from various locations by the
>>> glaciers of the last ice age so it's kind of a potluck
>>> dinner of geology up here.
>>>
>>> I won't get my hopes up, but I certainly wouldn't mind
>>> copying Bob Verish
>>> and finding out I've been sitting on a mars meteorite
>>> for a year!! :-)
>>>
>>> Any comments are greatly appreciated
>>> Graham
>>>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>>
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