[meteorite-list] What are the FeO/MnO Ratios for the Kalahari 008, 009?

[Jeff Grossman]

When this meteorite came to my attention as a member of the NomCom, warning 
bells went off in my head too.  Enough evidence was presented to us to 
convince us that these were meteorites, although I expected this not to be 
the case, that we had to name them.  But the find story is very odd.  My 
reading of it is this: somebody who knows nothing about meteorites is 
driving his vehicle in the Kalahari.  In a brushy area (based on satellite 
imagery: get World Wind, then search the MetBull database for Kalahari 
008/9 and click on the nasa link to see the place), he parks in front of a 
sand dune and there he sees a rock: no fusion crust, probably very 
nondescript looking, the size of a cantaloupe melon.  Oh, he says, here's 
something cool... a rock!  I think I'll drag this 30 lb thing back home 
with me.  But first, I think I'll comb the area for more.  Hmmm.

jeff


At 09:30 PM 8/9/2005, Adam Hupe wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>I was wondering if anybody knows the FeO/MnO rations for the two Kalahari
>Lunaites.  Has anybody ever seen a picture of these two stones?  Do they
>have crust?  Nothing seems to add up.  A Moon to Earth transit time of only
>a couple of hundred years?  A 300 plus million year old terrestrial aged
>rock rated W1?  Two completely different classifications for two rocks found
>50 meters apart?
>
>Just Curious,
>
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