There's a recently posted ILKE HABER AJANSI video of Dr Peter Jenniskens collecting suspected meteorites in Bingöl, Turkey.
Anyone know anything more?
David Entwistle wrote:Anyone know anything more?
Barwellian wrote:Great if it is a Howardite fall...only 16 ever recorded.
From the Meteoritical Society web site, the recommended classification Howardite means:
"An achondrite from the howardite group."
The highlighted words are defined as follows:
achondrite: A stony meteorite that lacks chondrules and originated on a differentiated parent body.
howardite: Howardites are an abundant group of polymict-breccia achondrites that appear to represent mixtures of eucrites + diogenites (these three linked groups are collectively known as HED meteorites and may come from asteroid 4 Vesta). The main minerals in howardites are pyroxene (largely orthopyroxene) and Na-poor plagioclase. A minority of howardites are rich in solar-wind noble gases and thus inferred to be regolith breccias.
Barwellian wrote:Some wonderful looking stones....but I think the last looks like a fake...looks like somebody has been out with a blowtorch and melted something slag like on the stone.
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