[meteorite-list] I've found snow in a meteorite

[Ingo Herkstroeter]

>Hi Göran and list!

I think it looks like Orthopyroxene may be a fragment of large chondrule.

Ingo (Hamburg/Germany; new at the list) 


Okay, okay, I'm exaggerating  a bit, but it's a really white
> inclusion in this meteorite and it's making a nice contrast
> to the dark matrix.
> 
> I bought a number of both cut and uncut unanalysed NWA:s from
> Dean a couple of months ago. When I cut one up to slices I was
> greeted by a really nice surprise. In one of the meteorites
> there were a white inclusion circa 5 mm across.
> 
> Here are some pictures on the inclusion.
> 
> http://www.meteorite.neab.net/pictures/meteorite-0010.jpg
> http://www.meteorite.neab.net/pictures/meteorite-0013a.jpg
> http://www.meteorite.neab.net/pictures/meteorite-0013b.jpg
> http://www.meteorite.neab.net/pictures/meteorite-0013c.jpg
> 
> The inclusion looks like some medium to fine grained mineral with
> grey lines (fractures?) criss crossing it.
> 
> Does anyone here have a clue of what this is?
> 
> Thanks for looking!
> 
> /Göran
> 
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