[meteorite-list] Stinky Meteorite

[Bob Holmes]

Hello Michael and List-

It was indeed NWA 096. The smell was also likened to  bubble-gum. The
two slices I have both still retain some of that scent. It has a very
interesting matrix with large orange clasts.

Cheers,
Bob Holmes



On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 5:23 PM, michael cottingham<mikewren at gilanet.com> wrote:

> Hello,

>

> In the early days when Mike Farmer and I where bringing over the very first

> batches of NWA's, I believe it was NWA 96? or NWA 90 something, somewhere

> around that number, we had one that upon cutting smelled like "Cotton Candy"

> It baffled everyone as to what the smell was or where it came from. It was

> distinct though and no doubt it came from within the meteorite. Some of you

> know which one I am talking about.  The smell of that meteorite made me

> think of the county fairs I have been to! Since then I have come across many

> chondrites both carbonaceous and ordinary that have had distinct

> smells-smells like charcoal, gunpowder, bubble gum or cotton candy, acid

> like smells, paint smells, and other smells.  A strange event and very hard

> to pin point down to the cause...

>

> Best Wishes

>

> Michael Cottingham

> http://stores.ebay.com/voyage-botanica-natural-history

>

>

>

>

> On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Greg Catterton wrote:

>

>>

>> Perhaps its the first "Urineite"...

>> I have had a few that had a rotten egg like smell, but never urine.

>>

>> Greg C.

>>

>> --- On Sat, 6/20/09, Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com> wrote:

>>

>>> From: Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com>

>>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Stinky Meteorite

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

>>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

>>> Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 7:49 PM

>>> Hi List,

>>>

>>> Don't laugh! This is weird...

>>>

>>> While slicing some unclassified chondrite meteorites I

>>> noticed one meteorite that was particularly odoriferous. I

>>> don't really want to say "what" this piece smells like as I

>>> don't know if it's appropriate list content. Let's just say

>>> that dogs lift their leg to fire hydrants, and maybe,

>>> sometime in the past, this stone just happened to be in the

>>> wrong place at the wrong time.

>>>

>>> The smell was super intense while cutting. At first I

>>> didn't know where it was coming from, then when I finished

>>> the cut, I actually smelled the stone to see if that's where

>>> the odor was originating. Sure enough! Yuck!

>>>

>>> I've cleaned the stone throughly. No amount of cleaning

>>> will remove the smell. It's definitely coming from within

>>> the meteorite itself.

>>>

>>> Has anyone else had any of their NWA stone meteorites that

>>> smell really bad?

>>>

>>> -- Regards,

>>> Eric Wichman

>>> Meteorites USA

>>> http://www.meteoritesusa.com

>>> 904-236-5394

>>>

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