[meteorite-list] Northbranch H5

[Gary K. Foote]

Very nice Mark.  Curiously my specimen is quite black within, but does show heavy 
weathering on the two outer edges of surface.  Perhaps the dark black nature of my 
specimen is due to its small size and was cut from an area of deep black matrix.

Gary

On 14 Jan 2007 at 23:24, MARK BOSTICK wrote:

> Hello Gary, All,
> 
> When I started collecting meteorites, Northbranch was one of the lowest 
> costing chondrites on the market.  It was even less then the at the new 
> (classified) NWA meteorites. Every show I seemed to bring a large slice 
> home. I have since sold 2-3 kg. of the meteorite and currently about 2 kg. 
> is in Kansas Meteorite Society collections.
> 
> When Gary started this thread I was suprized to not see a gallery page for 
> the meteorite on my website.  I just added one and included a couple large 
> matrix images that show the weathering cracks and shock veins well.
> 
> http://www.meteoritearticles.com/colnorthbranch.html
> 
> Clear Skies,
> Mark Bostick
> www.meteoritearticles.com
> 
> 
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