[meteorite-list] Mercury Meteorites - the short list

[MexicoDoug]

That's a cop-out Mike!  Hunting for that elusive Swift Hermean 
meteorite you need to start picking up rocks and tossing the junky 
unMercury ones ;-)

Courtesy of Jeff's magic database, in addition to the three I started 
the list off with all having been proposed as possibly from Mercury in 
the literature, there are 37 more meteorites which appear as ungrouped 
achondrites to which you may want to add some E7's or better yet 
discount those related to them.  Some of these are appear easy to 
eliminate if you read the blurbs.  - just make a decent argument for 
the ones you want and append the short list ... Listed from Zakłodzie 
to Asuka they are:

Zakłodzie   1998    Poland  8.68 kg
Y-8307  1983    Antarctica  3.37 g
SaU 493 2009    Oman    134 g
SaU 402 2004    Oman    78 g
Sahara 03500    2003    (Sahara)    221 g
RBT 04255   2004    Antarctica  10.2 g
RBT 04239   2004    Antarctica  12 g
QUE 93148   1993    Antarctica  1.1 g
NWA 6704    2011    Algeria 6.6 kg
NWA 6698    2010    (NWA)   38.4 g
NWA 6693    2011    (NWA)   5.1 kg
NWA 6077    2008    (NWA)   1010 g
NWA 5644    2008    (NWA)   200 g
NWA 5400    2008    (NWA)   4.82 kg
NWA 5363    2008    (NWA)   2.46 kg
NWA 4901    2007    (NWA)   24 g
NWA 4741    2005    (NWA)   20 g
NWA 4587    2006    (NWA)   530 g
NWA 4518    2003    (NWA)   167 g
NWA 4301    2006    (NWA)   685 g
NWA 4284    2005    (NWA)   137 g
NWA 4042    2004    (NWA)   56.2 g
NWA 2993    2006    (NWA)   625 g
NWA 2976    2005    (NWA)   219 g
NWA 2968    2005    (NWA)   268 g
NWA 2907    2005    (NWA)   586 g
NWA 2635    2004    (NWA)   4.2 kg
NWA 2400    2003    (NWA)   136 g
NWA 2353    2004    (NWA)   315 g
NWA 1500    2000    (NWA)   3.3 kg
NWA 1058    2001    (NWA)   180 g
Divnoe  1981    Russia  12.7 kg
Dho 732 2002    Oman    17 g
Dho 500 2000    Oman    116 g
Dho 1441    2003    Oman    268 g
DAG 962 1998    Libya   130 g
A-881548    1988    Antarctica  110.2 g

Best wishes
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
To: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
Cc: Meteorite-List at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Fri, Aug 5, 2011 9:52 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury Meteorites - the short list


Hi Doug and List,

Don't forget all of the oddball, one-off, ungrouped meteorites that
come from unknown parent bodies.  There are dozens (if not a hundred
or more) such meteorites that do not neatly fit into any of the
official classes.  It is possible that our Mercury candidate might
come from that motley group of ungroupeds.  ;)

When they find a meteorite from Venus, they will name it after me.  - 
MIMMW

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 8/5/11, MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com> wrote:
> Hello again Mercury Nornoids,
>
> Physics, opinions and biases aside ... can we build a concise list of
> Mercury meteorite candidates already in our collections (at least
> wistfully) and play a game to see if we can speculate on them one by
> one - before the scientific press - with information from MESSENGER -
> as candidate meteorites from Mercury?  Or, better yet, not eliminate
> one or more ... ;-)  ?
>
> 1. Bencubbinites
> 2. Angrites
> 3. GRA 06128 & 06129
> 4. NWA 011 and pairings
> 5. Mercury Meteor (parent body Mercury or Ford?)
>
> Sunnyside up,
> Doug
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