AW: [meteorite-list] Whole individual

[Martin Altmann]

Everything, what obtained its shape during and from flight, is an
individual.
Everything what obtained its rough shape on ground (break-off while impact,
wheathering, wind blast)is a fragment.

Exception: Break-off in low altitudes (Tatahouine, Some Sikhotes, ect..).
Exception 2: Irons. Everything, which is not a shrapnel or has a cut
surface, people call "individual".

Common use today: All stones are called individuals, as long as they have no
larger fresh fractured portions (that means: broke off yesterday) of the
surface. See ebay.




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[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Marcin
Cimala
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 20:42
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Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Whole individual

> Hi all,
>
> What is the exact definition of a whole individual? Is it considered whole
as long as it hasn't been altered by man? To me any stone that was found is
a whole individual or at least an indivdual even though it may have
fragmented in flight. What are the parameters?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill

Good question.
What about specimen that was broken on desert by weathering to many pieces.
They are fragments or whole individuals ? Im asking becouse I have some
piesces that comes from different falls and they are very weathered
(something like Dean selling now).
I cant say that this 4 pieces or other are broken fragments from one
specimen, becouse every piece propably comes from different fall or from the
same.

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