[meteorite-list] heavily encrusted dark grey interior - largefind?

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Hi John,  I agree with you.  It looks  like a meteorite.

Certain meteorites have "weird" (Is that the official  scientific term?) 
adhesion properties.  I have seen some scoured by the  desert sand and other who 
seem to grab every piece of sand/rock and make it  stick.  It must have 
something to do with the desert varnish that is  growing around the native material 
or perhaps simple mineral migration due to  weathering.

I have a 7.3 Kg NWA that looks like it is completely  encrusted in jewels.  
Fine sand bits all over!  It is beautiful and  unlike ant other I have seen.  
It has a brown interior so not a match to  yours. 

I am embedding images.  (I am sending this email to the list  without 
pictures so if any one else wants to see the photos, just email  me).

Tom Phillips


In a message dated 12/18/2008 7:59:14 P.M.  Mountain Standard Time, 
John at Cabassi.net writes:
G'Day Phil W.
I sincerely  doubt that what Phil has is slag, that's just my opinion. I also 
have a  large specimen of 1514 grams and it really is unique. What he has 
described  is very similar to what I have and I have forward him pictures and 
he has  replied that what he has and I have are very similar.  So we'll see  
what we come up with.

Thanks for your input, it's really  appreciated.

Cheers
John


----- Original Message -----  
From: "JoshuaTreeMuseum" <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008  11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] heavily encrusted dark grey interior -  
largefind?


> Hi Phil,
> My first reaction is:  some  kind of slag?  It's amazing the different 
> kinds of slag people  bring into the museum as possible meteorites.
>
> Phil  Whitmer
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