[meteorite-list] Happy 10th Birthday Portales Valley

[Dark Matter]

Sorry, forgot the link:

http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2006/September/Micro_Visions.htm

happy viewing.




On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Dark Matter <freequarks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bernd and All,
>
> For a close up view of PV, check out Tom's Micro Visions article on
> it. I suspect that piece might be the PV with the finest polish in the
> world.
>
> Thanks Tom!
>
> -Martin
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 9:55 PM,  <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de> wrote:
>> Mike Farmer writes:
>>
>> "I found one stone, and bought many more for a total of more than 15 kilos."
>>
>> and: "Happy Birthday to one of my favorite meteorites"
>>
>>
>> A very enthusiastic Mike Farmer sent me this mail on Wed, 22 Jul 1998:
>>
>> "Bernd, I just returned from the UofA where most of the analysis is being done.
>>  They loved this piece. It is quite obvious that this chondrite was smashed in
>>  a huge shock event and metal flowed into the stone crushed pieces. I wish they
>>  were all this nice! I had to pay over $...*/ gram for this slice and I will try
>>  to get another since it is so incredible."
>>
>> * amount canceled by me because I don't know if Mike wants to keep this private
>>
>> Best wishes from the happy owner of  an 11.5-gram metal-poor slice (M. Farmer),
>> a 3.9-gram metal-rich slice (M. Blood) and a PV thin section (M. Farmer),
>>
>> Bernd
>>
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