[meteorite-list] India Meteorite Guessing Contest?

[Armando Afonso]

Paving stone - basalt from the local quarry!
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "drtanuki" <drtanuki at yahoo.com>
To: "Martin Horejsi" <accretiondesk at gmail.com>; 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] India Meteorite Guessing Contest?



> 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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