[meteorite-list] Polished Butts - pics of mine... lol.

[Greg Catterton]

Anne is correct.
Here is a few pictures of one of my polished butts...

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c165/jedisdiamond/DSCF5309-1.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c165/jedisdiamond/DSCF5310-1.jpg

I keep them after thin section making, its a good way to pass around meteorites to kids to hold and check out.


Greg Catterton
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--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Impactika at aol.com <Impactika at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Impactika at aol.com <Impactika at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Polished Butts - Toliet humor aside, what exactly are th...
> To: Jimski47 at aol.com, meteoritemike at gmail.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, March 28, 2011, 5:12 PM
> No toilet humor here.
> It is a chunk of meteorite encased in epoxy, polished, and
> from which 
> thin-sections are cut.
> I prefer to call them "cores".
> Less possibility of misunderstanding.
>  
> Anne M. Black
> _http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/) 
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> 
> President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
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>  
>  
> In a message dated 3/28/2011 2:59:26 PM Mountain Daylight
> Time, 
> Jimski47 at aol.com
> writes:
> My guess would be that it's a polished endcut.
> 
> Jim K
> 
> 
> In a message dated 3/28/2011 3:54:41 P.M. Central Daylight
> Time,  
> meteoritemike at gmail.com
> writes:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have seen several  references to "polished butts" in
> the Met
> Bulletin.  For example, from  this recent entry
> (NWA 6580) approved
> yesterday -
> 
> "Type specimens  available at Cascadia include 1 piece
> originally 20.0
> g, from which one  polished thin section and one
> polished butt were
> made. Thompson holds the  main mass."
> 
> I did the usual Google Search ("polished butt") to find
> out  what this
> was, and you don't want to know what the results of that
> search  were.
> Let's just say, that is has nothing to do with meteorites
> or  thin
> sections.
> 
> So I have to ask the List - what is a polished  butt?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> MikeG
> 
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