[meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite

[Del Waterbury]

Yeah there's no mistaking Galena when you see it. The way it fractures and the color is always a dead give away. Here's a link that explains it some, take note of the density-

http://www.webmineral.com/data/Galena.shtml

Del


--- On Fri, 6/27/08, Pete Shugar <pshugar at clearwire.net> wrote:


> From: Pete Shugar <pshugar at clearwire.net>

> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite

> To: "Del Waterbury" <paseclipse at yahoo.com>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, "David & Kitt Deyarmin" <bobadebt at ec.rr.com>, meteoritemall at yahoo.com, "Mr EMan" <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>

> Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 10:56 AM

> I knew I'd seen that somewhere!!!

> I pulled out my cat's whisker detector and sure enough

> that's just what it looked like.

> Pete, IMCA 1773, KL7GNW

> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Del Waterbury"

> <paseclipse at yahoo.com>

> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>;

> "David & Kitt Deyarmin" 

> <bobadebt at ec.rr.com>;

> <meteoritemall at yahoo.com>; "Mr EMan" 

> <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>

> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:09 AM

> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite

> 

> 

> > If I was going to take a guess of what was in that

> picture I would say it 

> > looks like Galena. Not sure if this one has been

> suggested yet, but that 

> > what it looks like to me.

> >

> > Del

> >

> >

> > --- On Fri, 6/27/08, Mr EMan

> <mstreman53 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >

> >> From: Mr EMan <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>

> >> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is this a meteorite

> >> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com,

> "David & Kitt Deyarmin" 

> >> <bobadebt at ec.rr.com>,

> meteoritemall at yahoo.com

> >> Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 4:01 AM

> >> Before anyone falls on their sword over this

> specimen, note

> >> the gas channel/tube in the middle-- scraggy as it

> is, even

> >> Na tan isn't worm eaten!

> >>

> >> It was my observation that, while many folks

> submitted lots

> >> of candidates which I enjoyed looking over, there

> were many

> >> subtle distinctions and outright differences that

> >> didn't match. The specimen

> "resembled" most

> >> of them but on closer viewing didn't

> "match"

> >> any of them. The most common feature was metallic

> luster

> >> but twasn't the same metallic luster on any of

> the

> >> photos.

> >>

> >> Not trying to be pedantic but many times it is

> better to

> >> look for the differences in all the features(e.g.

> fracture,

> >> texture, crystal faces, etc.) It the specimens

> match there

> >> will be none.

> >>

> >> I don't have a photo of metallic silicon handy

> but it

> >> too has subtle surface differences: it has a

> convex,

> >> undulating, fracture vs the flat banded fractures

> this

> >> specimen shows.

> >>

> >> Up to this point, the gas channel most certainly

> points to

> >> a smelting product(aka slag or bad run) and, I

> would be

> >> comfortable saying that I know what it is not. 

> The great

> >> part about all the photo sharing is we now have

> many more

> >> materials to compare when we are trying to

> identify a given

> >> specimen. Plus I wouldn't have totally blown

> that

> >> mesosiderite photo a few months back had I looked

> closer.

> >>

> >> Thanks Bunches,

> >> Elton

> >>

> >> Elton

> >>

> >>

> >> --- On Thu, 6/26/08, Ruben Garcia

> >> <meteoritemall at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >>

> >> > What bad news? You didn't think it looked

> like

> >> this

> >> > nantan meteorite?

> >> http://www.mr-meteorite.com/nantan.htm

> >> > To me this is the only picture that looked

> like

> >> yours...

> >> > what did I miss?

> >>

> >> > --- On Thu, 6/26/08, David & Kitt

> Deyarmin

> >> > <bobadebt at ec.rr.com> wrote:

> >> > > I will relay the bad news to my friend

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