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

[al mitt]

Greetings Bernd and all,

That cost me more than a few information cards. Best!

--AL Mitterling


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernd V. Pauli" <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 2:58 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] NWA 869 - FYI: an L3-6


> 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
>
>
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