[meteorite-list] Crust on old meteorites - Campo, Nantan, Morasko type
MexicoDoug
MexicoDoug at aim.com
Mon Dec 4 13:18:38 EST 2006
Oops, make that desert varnish doesn't count as the original good stuff...
> Hi Marcin-ho,
>
> Does the crust after these millenium still look like you took a high
> temperature blow torch to steel and watched it turn rainbowish colores, or
> are we talking about an old magnetitated surface that has been exposed to
> the elements and kept certain characteristics of its original glory. Take
> a look at the Mazapil Iron in Vienna sometime and PLeeeeease send me a
> picture at high resolution.
>
> Desert varnish on stone meteorites does count as fusion crust, but I guess
> there are all kinds of crusts possible. Just not the original atmospheric
> issue,
>
> Best wishes, Doug
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>> Dear Buckleboo
>> Yes its strange but I have here crust. And it is not only on this one
>> 282g
>> endpiece. Go and look into my 5kg endpiece in my shop. There are still
>> flow
>> lines on crust. And noone prove when Morasko fall. Maybe 5000 maybe 2000
>> y
>> ago.
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