[meteorite-list] Lisa Webber's is a meteorite

[Alan Rubin]

Most meteorite petrographers have a lot of experience looking at meteorite 
whole rocks, not just thin sections.  Over the years, I can usually tell a 
meteorite from a wrong, but when I am not sure, I make a thin section before 
making an announcement.  What I am not so good at is guessing what kind of a 
meteorite it is before I see a thin section.  Jason Utas, for example, is 
much better at that than I am.


Alan Rubin
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
University of California
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dorifry" <dorifry at embarqmail.com>
To: "Michael Mulgrew" <mikestang at gmail.com>; "Michael Farmer" 
<mike at meteoriteguy.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lisa Webber's is a meteorite


> Michael,
> A lot of times scientists used to working in labs with thin slices can't 
> tell an ordinary chondrite from a hole in the ground. They  often 
> specialize in a narrow academic field and have no experience handling all 
> different types of meteorites. It's hard to beat years of hands on 
> experience when it comes to field grading meteorites. Plus, these stones 
> have highly unusual crust. I didn't think they were meteorites because of 
> the weird crust, but it's hard to tell just from looking at an out of 
> focus photograph.
>
> Phil Whitmer
> Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Mulgrew" <mikestang at gmail.com>
> To: "Michael Farmer" <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
> Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "Brien Cook" 
> <contact at briencook.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 12:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lisa Webber's is a meteorite
>
>
>> Am I to understand that one of NASA's best has problems identifying a
>> meteorite?  Is anyone else concerned by that?
>>
>> Michael in So. Cal.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Of course it is. Sadly the damage is done. I am in Germany and all I am 
>>> seeing is news reports now calling it a meteor wrong. What a 
>>> cluster#+~>.
>>> Michael Farmer
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Oct 25, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Brien Cook <contact at briencook.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > http://cams.seti.org/
>>> >
>>> >
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