[meteorite-list] Re-2: Blue Salt Crystals
Bernd V. Pauli
bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
Sat Jan 20 09:21:50 EST 2018
Hi Paul, AL, and List,
AL wrote:
> The blue halide crystals were found early on in Zag. I believe they
> were found in other meteorites (Monahans, Tx?) but information has a
> way of finding it's way back into the public eye.
Correct! The Monahans (H5) and Zag (H3-6) meteorites are the only
meteorites known to contain *liquid* water. The water was found in
salt crystals inside the meteorites.
Monahans (1998) contains contains blue crystals of halite (NaCl)
and sylvite (KCl).*
*GIBSON Jr. E.K. et al. (1998) Monahans (1998) H5 chondrite: An unusual meteorite fall with extraterrestrial halite and sylvite (Meteoritics 33-4, 1998, A057).
AL also wrote:
> Yes, they were packed out by camel and the
> camel sweat story was a part of the story.
Doesn't the camel sweat story belong to El Hammami (H5)???
Best from Germany,
Bernd
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