[meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite

[Del Waterbury]

Yeah there's no mistaking Galena when you see it. The way it fractures and the color is always a dead give away. Here's a link that explains it some, take note of the density-

http://www.webmineral.com/data/Galena.shtml

Del


--- On Fri, 6/27/08, Pete Shugar <pshugar at clearwire.net> wrote:

> From: Pete Shugar <pshugar at clearwire.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite
> To: "Del Waterbury" <paseclipse at yahoo.com>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, "David & Kitt Deyarmin" <bobadebt at ec.rr.com>, meteoritemall at yahoo.com, "Mr EMan" <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 10:56 AM
> I knew I'd seen that somewhere!!!
> I pulled out my cat's whisker detector and sure enough
> that's just what it looked like.
> Pete, IMCA 1773, KL7GNW
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Del Waterbury"
> <paseclipse at yahoo.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>;
> "David & Kitt Deyarmin" 
> <bobadebt at ec.rr.com>;
> <meteoritemall at yahoo.com>; "Mr EMan" 
> <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite
> 
> 
> > If I was going to take a guess of what was in that
> picture I would say it 
> > looks like Galena. Not sure if this one has been
> suggested yet, but that 
> > what it looks like to me.
> >
> > Del
> >
> >
> > --- On Fri, 6/27/08, Mr EMan
> <mstreman53 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Mr EMan <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite
> >> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com,
> "David & Kitt Deyarmin" 
> >> <bobadebt at ec.rr.com>,
> meteoritemall at yahoo.com
> >> Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 4:01 AM
> >> Before anyone falls on their sword over this
> specimen, note
> >> the gas channel/tube in the middle-- scraggy as it
> is, even
> >> Na tan isn't worm eaten!
> >>
> >> It was my observation that, while many folks
> submitted lots
> >> of candidates which I enjoyed looking over, there
> were many
> >> subtle distinctions and outright differences that
> >> didn't match. The specimen
> "resembled" most
> >> of them but on closer viewing didn't
> "match"
> >> any of them. The most common feature was metallic
> luster
> >> but twasn't the same metallic luster on any of
> the
> >> photos.
> >>
> >> Not trying to be pedantic but many times it is
> better to
> >> look for the differences in all the features(e.g.
> fracture,
> >> texture, crystal faces, etc.) It the specimens
> match there
> >> will be none.
> >>
> >> I don't have a photo of metallic silicon handy
> but it
> >> too has subtle surface differences: it has a
> convex,
> >> undulating, fracture vs the flat banded fractures
> this
> >> specimen shows.
> >>
> >> Up to this point, the gas channel most certainly
> points to
> >> a smelting product(aka slag or bad run) and, I
> would be
> >> comfortable saying that I know what it is not. 
> The great
> >> part about all the photo sharing is we now have
> many more
> >> materials to compare when we are trying to
> identify a given
> >> specimen. Plus I wouldn't have totally blown
> that
> >> mesosiderite photo a few months back had I looked
> closer.
> >>
> >> Thanks Bunches,
> >> Elton
> >>
> >> Elton
> >>
> >>
> >> --- On Thu, 6/26/08, Ruben Garcia
> >> <meteoritemall at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > What bad news? You didn't think it looked
> like
> >> this
> >> > nantan meteorite?
> >> http://www.mr-meteorite.com/nantan.htm
> >> > To me this is the only picture that looked
> like
> >> yours...
> >> > what did I miss?
> >>
> >> > --- On Thu, 6/26/08, David & Kitt
> Deyarmin
> >> > <bobadebt at ec.rr.com> wrote:
> >> > > I will relay the bad news to my friend
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