[meteorite-list] Any one find any "Space Pearls"? Observations wanted. Micrographs to send!

[wahlperry at aol.com]

Hi Tom,
Thanks for the great pictures!

Sonny

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From: STARSANDSCOPES at aol.com
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 7:53 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Any one find any "Space Pearls"? Observations 
wanted. Micrographs to send!

Hi List.  I have started to call them "Space Pearls"  You have to  open 
a lot
of meteorites to find them.

What I am talking about is  a unique crystal structure in a small round
chondrule/inclusion.  These  objects stand out from the matrix as very 
different

and I have found them in  very different meteorite material.  The first 
one I
found was in a slice of  JaH 055, a photo of that one was published in 
Meteorite

Magazine.  Since  then I have only found partial or not completely 
developed
(apparently)  examples. Yesterday I found an other one.  These are not 
common.
  I  have cut, polished and examined hundreds of meteorites and I am 
only up
to 2  good examples.

Perhaps some others have come on to these objects as  well?  Always 
much
smaller than a chondrule.  Hardly visible with out  magnification and 
no
features
can be seen so spotting them would require  microscope viewing.

Please email me and I will send an email with  embedded micrographs 
(nothing
to download separately).  I am eager to hear  observations of what 
these are
and if you have noticed them before.

Thanks,  Tom Phillips




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