[meteorite-list] India Meteorite Guessing Contest?

[drtanuki]

Martin,
  I concur, Eucrite.  dirk ross..Tokyo

--- Martin Horejsi <accretiondesk at gmail.com> wrote:


> Hi All,

> 

> Looks like we have another opportunity for a

> classification contest.

> 

> Based upon the early photos, it sure looks like the

> glossy Ca-rich

> fusion crust of a Eucrite, with my more specific

> guess (hard to tell

> since the photo is small) of a polymict fragmental

> breccia with

> dominantly plagioclase and pyroxene clasts set into

> a fine-grained

> matrix of zoned orthopyroxene.

> 

> My guess on the TKW is under 200g! What's that based

> upon? Well, it

> looks like the other fragments found are too

> weathered to be from this

> fall, and are likely from this planet (if you catch

> my drift).

> 

> Cheers,

> 

> Martin

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