[meteorite-list] north Europe Hurricane emergency

[ensoramanda]

Hi all,

Just been weathering the storms here in the UK...luckily the Midlands 
seems to have escaped the worst.  The West was hit bad though...think 
the death toll is up to 13 now.  Many towns still without power.  As you 
may have all heard, after departing the UK the storm headed into Europe 
and worstened again...most unusual...hope everyone out there is ok.

I spent today doing a trade for three samples of rarely available 
meteorites.  I have aquired a large slice of Wairarapa, an H6 from New 
Zealand (looks brecciated or shock melted to me) around 40g I think.  
Plus several pea sized fragments of , a well documented CV3 fall in 1908 
again from New Zealand and finally a fragment (about 30g) of  Alta ameem 
LL5, fell in 1977 , about 100 m N. of the village of Humaira, northern Iraq.

I have photographed the labels and original notes from when they were 
aquired in the 60's and 70's to show thier provenance.  I was told that 
they resided at Newcastle University until recently when a deparment 
closed and they were passed on tho the present collection.

I have managed to put Wairarapa through the SEM this afternoon and am 
now trying to make sense of the images and data.
I have no experience in doing this...

If anyone out there has such experience and would like to see the data I 
would be glad of any pointers as to recognizing the minerals from the 
elements present.

I will try and find a way of posting some photographs of the samples and 
supplying links to them if anyone is interested.

Meanwhile Tucson grows ever closer...just one week before we fly.

Hope to see some of you there.

Graham, Nr Barwell UK