[meteorite-list] If I can choose.....! (was: a reply to Hupe andFarmer)

Darren Garrison cynapse at charter.net
Fri Feb 24 01:23:09 EST 2006


On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:06:32 -0500, you wrote:

>CHONDRULES!
>ANY chondrite with LOTS of sharply defined, wide variety of size and colours 
>chondrules over any comparatively plain looking basalt lunar!
>
>They capture my imagination, and I look at them through my microscope 
>whenever I have some free time, and cruise the internet looking for 
>pictures.

Same here.  I like meteorites that look like you are holding a frozen piece of a
circumstellar disc.  A chunk of lava from some other planet that can only be
told apart from a chunk of lava from Earth by the fusion crust and ion
microprobe results isn't nearly as fascinating to me.



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