[meteorite-list] New CV3 NWA 3216

[Walter Branch]

Hi Dave,

Congratulations.  Nice looking CV3 you have there.

I recently got a slice of NWA 2086 (CV3) but I "cheated"
and got it after it was classified :-)

-Walter
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Harris" <entropydave at ntlworld.com>
To: "metlist" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] New CV3 NWA 3216


> 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!!!
>
>
>
> thanks for your patience!
>
>
> dave
> IMCA #0092
> Sec.BIMS
> www.bimsociety.org
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