[meteorite-list] The Black NWA

[Darren Garrison]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:49:21 -0700, you wrote:

>I am one million percent sure this is not 869. I over 10 kilos of 869 and it
>is definitely not it. The crust on this stone is so much more black, thick,
>and leathery. The matrix on this is more porous than 869.

You'd know better, looking at the real thing and not a small photo, but all the
details I can see on the cut surface looked that way to me-- the often angular
white clasts with sharp borders, the somewhat diffuse reddish areas, the grey
matrix, all looked about right for the typical colors/shapes in 869.