[meteorite-list] India Meteorite Guessing Contest?

[drtanuki]

Martin,
  I concur, Eucrite.  dirk ross..Tokyo

--- Martin Horejsi <accretiondesk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Looks like we have another opportunity for a
> classification contest.
> 
> Based upon the early photos, it sure looks like the
> glossy Ca-rich
> fusion crust of a Eucrite, with my more specific
> guess (hard to tell
> since the photo is small) of a polymict fragmental
> breccia with
> dominantly plagioclase and pyroxene clasts set into
> a fine-grained
> matrix of zoned orthopyroxene.
> 
> My guess on the TKW is under 200g! What's that based
> upon? Well, it
> looks like the other fragments found are too
> weathered to be from this
> fall, and are likely from this planet (if you catch
> my drift).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Martin
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