[meteorite-list] Stefan's New Find

Jeff Kuyken info at meteorites.com.au
Fri Jan 23 00:33:00 EST 2009


Hi Stefan and all,

I was thinking about this last night and was wondering if anyone knows of a 
Carbonaceous chondrite that has ever been classified as a combination? (i.e. 
CV/CK or CB/CH etc.)

Or maybe a paper written on the topic?

Cheers,

Jeff



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Ralew" <stefan at meteoriten.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 1:27 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stefan's New Find


> Hello Together,
>
> many thanks for the all the interesting answers to my email. Yes, it could 
> be a CK/CV - if I look at Marcins photos of his NWA 4838, the pieces are 
> actually very similar, although certainly not the same meteorite. Here are 
> the two photos side by side:
> http://www.chladnis-heirs.com/two-cc.jpg
>
> The dark lithology could be a melted version of the light-grey lithology. 
> But it is somewhat strange that the dark lithology has apparent more free 
> iron metal than the light-grey area. I will of course keep the list 
> informed about the final classification. The stone is currently under 
> examination by Dr. Ansgar Greshake. Whatever it is, it is simply a strange 
> thing, and a great surprise indeed.
>
> Best wishes,
> Stefan
>
>
> www.chladnis-heirs.com
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:59 PM
> Subject: [english 90%] [meteorite-list] Stefan's New Find
>
>
>> Hello Fred, Stefan and List,
>>
>> "The darker side looks like a CV3, but the fair grey one?"
>>
>> The uncut main mass: http://www.chladnis-heirs.com/carb-ungesch.jpg
>> The cut surface: http://www.chladnis-heirs.com/carb.jpg
>>
>> Ever since Stefan first showed me this unique specimen in November 2008,
>> I've been wondering and brooding what this might be. My very first idea 
>> was
>> that this might be a CK-like chondrite, then I thought it might also be 
>> some
>> kind of E-chondrite and from there, it was just another (hypothetical) 
>> hop
>> to the assumption that this could be a Kakangari-like chondrite (???)
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Bernd
>>
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