[meteorite-list] NWA 869 - FYI: an L3-6

[Bernd V. Pauli]

Hello Gary and List,

Just a few minutes ago, Gary launched an EBay AD and one of his offerings
is a 1 kg lot of NWA 869 L4-6. Interestingly, this "ugly duckling", which
is, in reality, an absolute beauty from the Hot Deserts of Northwest Africa,
has been reclassified as an L3–6 chondritic regolith breccia by K. Metzler
et al. in this MAPS article:

Metzler K. et al. (2011) The L3–6 chondritic regolith breccia Northwest
Africa (NWA) 869: (I) Petrology, chemistry, oxygen isotopes, and Ar-Ar
age determinations  (MAPS 46-5, 2011, pp. 652-680).

Cheers,

Bernd