[meteorite-list] Info on Sikhote Alin's shrapnel
debfred at att.net
debfred at att.net
Tue Nov 17 15:08:45 EST 2009
Darren, I just looked at 119 individual pieces of shrapnel fragments under a microscope. They are rather small and range in size from 30 grams to less than one gram. It looks to me that every one of them shows some feature of melting. many have roll over rims, melted grooves, fusion crust with impact pits, bubbly crust on backside of oriented pieces. I doubt that any of these features were produced by tumbling.
Regards, Fred
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From: Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>
>
> I was under the impression (read it somewhere) that most modern=collected
> Sikhote-Alin fragments are rusty and are cleaned in rock tumblers. If so, could
> not that dull/round formerly sharp edges and make them look "melted"?
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