[meteorite-list] NWA 2140 smells like gum?

[Jeff Kuyken]

I think everyone is right. I believe residents could smell the 'alcohol'
like smell after the Murchison fall but I've also heard the bubble gum
comment before too.

Cheers,

Jeff
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: JKGwilliam
  To: Walter Branch ; Sterling K. Webb ; Mike Bandli ; 'Meteorite Mailing
List'
  Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 4:51 PM
  Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 2140 smells like gum?


  It wasn't Murchison that smelled like bubblegum, it was NWA096 (H3.8).

  <http://www.meteoritebiz.com/nwa096.htm>

    If my memory is correct, Murchison specimens smelled of alcohol and
  ether? even after several years in storage in a sealed jar.

  Best,
  John Gwilliam

  At 06:18 PM 12/4/2006, Walter Branch wrote:
  >Murchison?  Bubble gum?
  >Asphalt maybe, but bubble gum?
  >
  >Are your sure it was bubble gum?
  >
  >-Walter
  >________________________
  >----- Original Message -----
  >From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
  >To: "Mike Bandli" <fuzzfoot at comcast.net>; "'Meteorite Mailing List'"
  ><meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
  >Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 8:02 PM
  >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NWA 2140 smells like gum?
  >
  >
  > > Hi,
  > >
  > >    Bob Haag reported that one fresh Murchison
  > > kept in a mason jar from immediately after the fall
  > > smelled very strongly and aromatically like fresh
  > > bubble gum! (This was, I believe, only a week
  > > or two after the fall.)
  > >
  > > Sterling K. Webb
  > > -----------------------------------------------------------
  > > ----- Original Message -----
  > > From: "Mike Bandli" <fuzzfoot at comcast.net>
  > > To: "'Meteorite Mailing List'" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
  > > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 5:14 PM
  > > Subject: [meteorite-list] NWA 2140 smells like gum?
  > >
  > >
  > > I received two slices of this CV3 meteorite and noticed they smell
like
  > > fruity gum. It's very weak but definitely noticeable. Yes.I smell all
my
  > > meteorites when I get them.it can't be that strange of a ritual.
Anyone
  > > else
  > > out there with NWA 2140 notice this? Or did my dealer happen to be
wearing
  > > his wife's Bath 'N Body Works hand lotion when he packed my slices.
  > >
  > > I remember some other C meteorite having similar scent, no?
  > >
  > > Kind regards,
  > >
  > > Mike Bandli
  > >
  > >
  > >
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