[meteorite-list] India Meteorite Guessing Contest?

[Armando Afonso]

Paving stone - basalt from the local quarry!
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "drtanuki" <drtanuki at yahoo.com>
To: "Martin Horejsi" <accretiondesk at gmail.com>; 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] India Meteorite Guessing Contest?


> 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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