[meteorite-list] Murray (1950 Kentucky) various references
Robin Whittle
rw at firstpr.com.au
Mon May 14 09:51:22 EDT 2012
My wife Tina and I recently started our meteorite collection with an
inexpensive 12mg fragment of the 1950 Murray CM2 carbonaceous chondrite
meteorite, purchased from Peter Marmet via eBay:
http://myworld.ebay.com/pema9/ We have a Bausch & Lomb stereo
microscope 7x to 30x, a good illuminator and a binocular microscope for
80x (and higher if I could illuminate it properly).
Here are some documents I found helpful in understanding carbonaceous
chondrites in general and the Murray meteorite specifically. I am sure
there are many more, but I figure these might be of interest to list
members.
- Robin Melbourne Australia http://astroneu.com
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=16882
Data for this meteorite, with photos and various links.
12.6kg total found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonaceous_chondrites#CM_group
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=Murray+Meteorite+Chondrite
3,020 papers mention these words. Some are freely available - see
links on the right of the page.
http://www.meteorite.fr/en/forsale/Murray.htm
Photos and ~90 grams of this meteorite for sale.
http://www.historicmeteorites.com/HistoricMeteorites/M-Murray.html
Photo of a 48 gram fragment with fusion crust.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1953Metic...1..114H
1953: The Murray, Calloway County, Kentucky, Aerolite (CN = +
0881,366). Horan, John R.
Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol. 1, p. 114-121 (1953)
Details of the fall and some early analysis.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1963SSRv....1..621M
1963: The Carbonaceous Chondrites. Mason, B.
Space Science Reviews, Volume 1, Issue 4, pp.621-646
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19730061059
1969: Accretion of Murray carbonaceous chondrite and implications
regarding chondrule and chondrite formation. Donald P. Elston.
Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University.
Very detailed report I am about to read.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19780005035
1977: Chemical fractionation in the solar nebula
NASA Lawrence Grossman
I haven't read it yet. Has a section on carbonaceous chondrites.
http://presolar.wustl.edu/~fjs/publications/p079.pdf
2003: Presolar spinel grains from the Murray and Murchison
carbonaceous chondrites E Zinner, S Amari, R Guinness,
A Nguyen Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2003
Oxygen isotope analysis indicates that some tiny grains of
the micron scale were formed in supernovae other than the one
which gave rise to our solar system.
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