[meteorite-list] AD - Another New Meteorite

Ruben Garcia rubengarcia85382 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 22:19:04 EST 2015


Hi Anne,

I can't make your link work.......

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Anne Black via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> My turn to announce a new meteorite!
>
> Not a new fall, but a new meteorite (and all meteorites are really falls, how else would they get here????)
>
> CLIFFORD, from Colorado.
>
> A single stone, weighing some 11.36kg, was found sometimes in the early 1960s in rangeland in central Colorado while looking
>  for arrowheads. He brought it home but thinking that it was just an odd looking rock he added it to his wife's rock garden. And it
>  stayed there until 1997 when Gary Curtiss, a Colorado geologist and meteorite collector happened to go by and spotted it. He
>  immediately recognized it for what it was, bought it and had it classified by Alan Rubin at UCLA. But then he kept most of it for himself!
>  Until very recently, when I finally convinced him to get a few slices cut and made available ot collectors.
>  Clifford is an ordinary chondrite, type L6, Shock S3, Weathering W2, with some large chondrules, metal blebs, and odd tiny vugs.
>
> I have now 11 slices at very reasonable, collector-friendly, non-gouging prices!
> Listed right here:    http://www.impactika.com/clifford.html
>
> Any questions, just ask!
>
> Anne M. Black
> www.IMPACTIKA.com
> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
>
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