[meteorite-list] NWA 869 - Ugly duckling with a heart of gold

[Thaddeus Besedin]

I couldn't agree more! My specimen (two halves of a single completely-crusted, well-preserved individual)  will remain with me even as I unload many of my rarer stones, having nearly 10% of its cut brecciated surface area occupied by a dark inclusion, and the remainder shared rather evenly by two dissimilar, completely distinct quasi-unequilibrated regions of creamy L4-5 and blue-grey L3.7-4, consisting mostly of large, opaque white undeformed chondrules (arguably appearing like a 3.7 fabric in other stones).
  -Thaddeus

bernd.pauli at paulinet.de wrote: 
  NWA 869 is one of those Hot Desert meteorites whose beauty has often been
undervalued just because there is so much of it available and because some
of these specimens are weathered or look "ugly". Fellow list member Christian
Anger and several other collectors are the proud owners of extremely beautiful
NWA 869 individuals with stunningly fresh crusts and breathtaking interiors.

As for the "heart of gold", just look at the RFS picture of the day for March 27th,
2006. It shows my NWA 869 thin section in cross-polarized light. Now, if this is
"ugly", then I do not know what ugly is ;-)

It's one of my thin section favorites!

See it here: http://www.spacerocksinc.com/March_27.html


Cheers,

Bernd

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