[meteorite-list] Santa Catharina

[bernd.pauli at paulinet.de]

Hi Marcin and List,

> Im looking for photos of the iron part from Santa
> Catharina Ataxite. Someone have specimen or photo?

There are three photos you might want to look at:

a) Cover photo: Meteorite Magazine, Feb 2000, Vol 6, No. 1.

   It's b&w but fairly large and therefore shows some details.

b) R. VAN TASSEL et al. (1992) An overlooked fragment of the
   Santa Catharina ataxite (Meteoritics 27-4, 1992, 467-469).

  This is an undocumented mass of 28 kg and resides at the State
  University Center of Antwerp, Belgium. Maybe Zélimir has a photo
  or would be able to get/take a close-up picture of this mass. The
  b&w picture of a polished section in Meteoritics is rather smallish
  (7.5 x 4 cm only).

c) HAAG ROBERT (2003) The Robert Haag Collection of Meteorites
  (Private Collection Edition, Tucson, Arizona): Color photograph
  on page 19 of Bob Haag's 232-gram endcut.

Unfortunately Bob is holding the cut surface slightly downward so that
you can't see very much of the cut, etched and polished surface of this
ataxite.

Maybe you want to send him a mail asking him to take a close-up
picture of his 232-gram mass.

Best wishes,

Bernd

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