[meteorite-list] Tiny Oriented Chelyabinsk

Paul Gessler cetuspa at shaw.ca
Wed Feb 26 12:30:54 EST 2014


Looks more like 3mm wide next to cube
Reminds me of a contest for smallest oriented meteorite a long while back
hosted by Michel FRANCO / Caillou Noir 
here is the link:

http://www.caillou-noir.com/Contestjuly2006.htm

-Paul G












-----Original Message----- 
From: Pict 
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:12 AM 
To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com 
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Tiny Oriented Chelyabinsk 

Ruben,

Can't be very dense then. Looks to be around 2mm diameter, and assuming
spherical at that dimension would be a density of 0.239 g/cc.
Are you sure it doesn't weigh 0.01 grams?

Regards,
John


On 26/02/2014 09:46, "Ruben Garcia" <rubengarcia85382 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Here is the smallest complete oriented chelyabinsk I've ever seen -
>.001 grams!  Anyone have a smaller oriented meteorite specimen?
>http://www.mrmeteorite.com/tinychely.htm
>
>-- 
>Rock On!
>
>Ruben Garcia
>http://www.MrMeteorite.com




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