[meteorite-list] New CV3 NWA 3216

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Hola Dave, I checked your number as you encouraged - I think your are  
precisely 3000 too high from being a perfect number (the kind that are "sort of  the 
exact opposite of prime numbers")!  So due to this excess, your  meteorite is 
not a PERFECT NUMBER it is an ABUNDANT NUMBER according to the  Greeks.  
Everyone always thinks they have a perfect number of a meteorite  and don't feel 
bad if it usually ends up this way.  As for the summing and  multiplying of the 
digits, you may have misread Euclid and even your number  would not have been 
very recognizable for this in greek numerals (hence the  importance of using 
divisor sets and not arbitrary notation).  But if you  want to be special your 
3216 is special because 3216x1, 3216x2, 3216x3, 3216x4,  3216x5, 3216x6, all 
contain the digit 6 in their product, 3216 is the smallest  number with this 
property, and six is a perfect number because all of its  divisors multiplied 
together equal it: 1x2x3=6.  Six is the smallest  perfect number and the 
Greeks, Bible, etc. considered it magical for this  reason.  Not 3216 which is a 
non-unique collection of random digits that  just as well could have been 2316, 
or 1326 or 1236 or 2136 or 3126 and do all  those things you said.  It is not 
even a triangular number which you would  have had to wait for NWA 3240 to 
get...

You may have an abundant number,  but I'm sure it will always be just perfect 
to you!   Congratulations.
Saludos, Doug




Dave H. calculated:

I am pleased to announce my first CV3 meteorite, formally classified by  the
Natural History Museum and has been given the name of 
NWA 3216 - for  the Greek scholars amongst you, t3216 is reagrds as a 
perfect number" as  3x2x1=6 as well as 3+2+1=6....
There are not a lot of these numbers around,  and as I have been working on a
distributive processing project called GIMPS  for 9 years now discovering the
biggest prime numbers, which are sort of the  exact opposite of a perfect
number, I feel this is most  appropriate.

It is unusual in that it has Sodalite in it - Sodalite,  containing volatile
elements such as Na and Cl usually are lost if heated  above about 150 deg C
- so this makes it pretty interesting and  aqueous!

I'd like to publically thank Drs Sara Russell, Mike Zolensky et  al. for
helping me to make a very little mark and contribution to the science  of
meteoritics.
I own the main mass of 44g, 20g is at the NHM as their  "type specimen" and
it is beautiful to look  at!
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.harris580/nwa3216.jpg

Well, I know  that most of you out there have done this a million times and
it's no big  deal, but for me, it has done wonders for my self esteem!!!