[meteorite-list] From McCarthy Taylor: What is this rock?

Dawn & Gerald Flaherty grf2 at verizon.net
Thu Sep 8 20:17:58 EDT 2005


Wicked neat rock, whatever it is.
Jerry Flaherty
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Subject: [meteorite-list] From McCarthy Taylor: What is this rock?


> McCarthy is having troubles posting to the List so he has asked me to
> forward this.
> He really would like some opinions on this  "rock"
> Thanks.
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> This  post is not an offical "Field Trip Report" but a request to help
> identify a suspect rock found from my latest trip.
>
> The trip recovered 4 stones, 2 of which are meteorites, 1 which I
> thought was till I cut it open and its the topic of this posting, and  a
> fourth that is probably a mesosider-wrong, but tested positive  for
> nickel and will be sent to a lab soon.
>
> The stone in question is found in the Plainview strewnfield, attracts
> a magnet well, and has metal flakes.  Hence, I acquired it from  the
> finder.  Once I cut it open I found no chrondrules and white  matrix.
> Also, I found tiny bubbles here and there.
>
> Does anyone recognize it or seen anything like it?  Any ideas what it
> is?  Meteorwrong?
>
> _www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003.jpg_
> (http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003.jpg)
>
> A good view of the metal pattern:
> _http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003-2.jpg_
> (http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003-2.jpg)
>
>
> A veiw of matrix and the small bubbles:
> _http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003-3.jpg_
> (http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003-3.jpg)
>
> The original main mass:
> _http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003-5.jpg_
> (http://www.westernwelltool.com/Labor_day_trip_05/05-003-5.jpg)
>
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