[meteorite-list] Stinky meteorites

[Michael Blood]

Hi Richard,
        What else but TP should be used for a Camel's Donga?
        Michael


On 7/24/10 6:58 PM, "Richard Montgomery" <rickmont at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi List...something to add....recently I recieved my best-yet Camel Donga in
> the mail, "appropriately" packaged from down under, although the inner
> wrapping was a generous coil of TP (toilet paper, chemically scented, no
> less)...   Alas!   As a mychophile, naturally I smell every new specimen
> ungo to bless my forays, the small a key character to published and
> described species.  I didn't expect the pungent odor of "pretty-stuff" to
> envelop my new complete and awesome eucrite, so I allowed it to sit under
> the scope over-night, in hopes of no sugar-plums dancing around in the
> morning.
> 
> Fortunately, no residudal smell, that I could detect, twelve hours later;
> yet/and thanks to that shiney crust I hope no terestrial crap happened to
> it.....but it does re-inforce the need for awareness on shipping and
> packaging.
> 
> What are we wrapping our specimens in????
> 
> Richard M
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Meteorites USA" <eric at meteoritesusa.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stinky meteorites
> 
> 
>> Baby powder meteorite, camel pee meteorite? I wonder where those came
>> from? They sound familiar. ;)
>> 
>> Baby powder, good...
>> 
>> Camel pee, bad...
>> 
>> ;)
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/24/2010 11:51 AM, GeoZay at aol.com wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> I have an end cut of an uNWA  chondrite which smelled like urine when
>>>>> 
>>> cut.<<
>>> 
>>> It might have been  on a camel trail?
>>> GeoZay
>>> 
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