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Meteorite Times MagazineThe St. Michel, Finland Meteorite – A Lifetime ofBreakageby Martin Horejsi

A July 1910 Witnessed Fall: The St. Michel, Finland Meteorite

A Lifetime of Breakage

Impressive breccias such as St. Michel provide obvious visual evidence ofnear-catastrophic injury before arriving on earth. Breccias are rockscomposed of various sized visible pieces of angular rock cementedtogether.

But that was just the beginning for St. Michel. Although its body was alreadyheavily scarred from its time in space, no sympathy was given to St. Michelas it slammed into the rocky ground of Finland further an finally breaking itinto pieces forever.

The St. Michel meteorite is named after its location of fall in Finland withwas named after the French name for Saint Michael who was a archangelin many religious teachings.In Hebrew, Michael means “who is like God.”However, given the fractured, troubled nature of the St. Michel brecciatedL6 chondrite I’d guess it is more representative of man than God.As ifenough Devine breakage has not been presented, another personalbreakage story surfaced when Arnaud Tricottet experienced a moment ofsynchronicity with St. Michel. Here is his tale (scroll down half way).

This crust was installed a little over a century ago, yet doesn’t look muchdifferent from recently fallen meteorites.Only a scant 17kg of St. Michelwas recovered with the bulk being in two broken stones, one of some 6.8kgand another located 200m away of 9.6kg. It was obvious that the twostones where once one and likely separated high in the atmosphere.

Picasso was a master of painting in more than one dimension. I get thesame pleasure from staring into a beautiful breccia like St. Michel as I dofrom a Picasso painting. It never gets old. Only richer.Some meteorites arecollectible because of their history. Some because of their look. And somebecause of their name. In the case of St. Michel, I am fond of this meteoritefor all three reasons.

Until next time….

The Accretion Desk welcomes all comments and feedback.accretiondesk@gmail.com

Meteorite Times Magazine2013 Tucson Gem and Mineral Showby Jim Tobin

This was quite an amazing year at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. We hadgone with plans to get a big supply of meteorites for the next year and to have somefun. But, we had way more fun and found some really spectacular material.

Our schedule was back to the regular week with all the meteorite related activities.Last year we had been there early and missed the IMCA dinner and the MeteoriteMen Birthday Bash. This year we would get to go to both.

We hit town at around noon on Wednesday and immediately had our glitch for thetrip. Our rental car was not in the lot and we had to wait a while as they sorted outwhat was going on and finally got us a different car. So just a little late we finally gotout of the airport at about 1:15 and headed toward the Tucson City Center Hotel Theformer Inn Suites. I wonder how many years will go by before we all start calling thathotel by its new name. It will always be the Inn Suites to me I think. I personal dislikethe new name.

This visit was just a quick pass to say hello and greet everyone. We had dinnerplans and had to still check in at our hotel. We made it to a few rooms and when wegot to Geoff Notkin’s room we were there at just the correct moment to meet SuzeeCorbell the writer and director of the film Unfinished Business which is about tobegin filming and will have as a cast member Geoff himself. There is a longer storybehind why meeting Suzee was cool but I need to move on with the gem showreport. Geoff was on his way out to continue giving Suzee and her mom the tour ofthe show so we said goodbye and went next door to see Anne Black. We had a fewseconds with Anne before she got busy and went back to working.

I usually find a number of meteorites in Anne’s room but I actually did not get back tosee her until Sunday. I did find something nice then however. We stayed aroundthere for a while then headed off to our hotel to check in. We had connected on thephone with our dinner guests and were looking forward to a great evening of friendsand good food. It was all that and much more. We shared stories and got caught upa little with what they had been doing. Wish it had been a lot longer but finally we hadto leave the restaurant and call it a night.

I had actually been to Arizona three times in three weeks. The first trip had been withmy wife to bring some things to Tucson two week before the gem show. On our wayhome we had stopped in Quartzsite to have some fun and I had seen an old roll topdesk sitting outside at one of the collectibles stores. It was in terrible shape and wasa big project. The price was certainly OK at only $75 but I hesitated and passed on iteven though I had been complaining to everyone including Paul about the state ofmy current desk and how I needed a new one. We left there and headed over to oneof the mineral and rock areas and walked around there for a few hours then camehome. But the desk was in my mind and about three days later I said to Sara “I

should have bought that desk.” I added you want to go back to Quartzsite on Fridayand try to get it? She said, “Why wait until Friday we could go tomorrow. I havenothing planned.” Then we both said at the same time “Road Trip.” So Thursdayexactly a week after going to Tucson we were back at Quartzsite again and I got thedesk. With the help of a nice stranger we got the beast loaded into the truck. Iworked on it every day until I had to leave for the gem show. The desk was on mymind as I was there.I had gotten some of my rock hounding and lapidary rock needstaken care of the two times we were at Quartzsite so I could almost completelyfocus on meteorites at the gem show. I say almost because I did have my eye outfor some bumblebee jasper if I found any. There had been none at Quartzsite and Iwas eager to get a supply.

Thursday morning we do what we always do on our second morning and that is totake care of all the business everywhere other than the former Inn Suites. So afterbreakfast it is down to the Ramada and say hi to Blaine Reed and whoever ishanging out with him this year. We can usually count on Mike Martinez and sureenough he was there. For two years in a row we have run into Eric Twelker in Blaineroom. It was nice to see Eric. We had missed him for so many years of gem showand then to see him two in row was great. We had three other stops at the Ramadaand two or three other hotels to get to so we moved on to Mike Miller’s room. Wefound some items there and I found a few pieces for my collection that I could notleave without. A nice piece of Norton County out of the University of New Mexico anda nice Wolf Creek also formerly from that collection have a new home. I had both inmy collection but upgrading to pieces with cool museum provenance was just togood to pass by. We finished our business with Mike and chatted a minute thenmoved along so he could get back to work. We ducked into two other dealers andmet them. Adam Bates was at the show for the first time and we had a niceconversation with him. He had brought some really fine meteorites for sale. Westopped by Said’s room, I could not resist a few chondrites that I found in one of hisplastic tubs so I was well on the way to a heavy bag by the time I left. It would be along day of carrying them around, but I will have fun cutting into them after I get alittle caught up with cutting for the business.

This is a beautiful fully crusted 434 gram stone with a nice shape and thumbprints. Idoubt this will be one I cut.

Down the road is the Riverpark Hotel and we had a few stops to make there.Midweek is a nice time to hit these hotels. There is usually parking in the lots whichis not the case on the weekend. We decided to pass the Riverpark and walk downto the Days Inn and do our work there before seeing the dealers in the Riverpark sowe would have to carry the load we expected to buy for a lot less time. A goodchoice except I passed a dealer with bumblebee jasper down at the Days Inn andended up with five pounds of that in my bags. It would not be the last of that I wouldbuy either. I found two more places and got a little more at those two stops beforewe left Tucson. The first five pounds was shipped home with the first batch ofmeteorites so I did not have to carry it around except the first day.

Paul stopped at a dealer to look at something we needed and I told him I wouldcatch up with him and headed down to a meteorite dealer. I found some nice stonesthere and a few pieces for my collection also. He had some classified material aswell as unclassified. I sorted though both and found a few pieces of a nice classifiedchondrite.

The pieces were in a low price tub but they had shock veins running through someof them and would be nice specimens. I had a chance to cut one which is shownabove. He had some irons there from a couple meteorites finds that have beenaround for a while and some nice pieces of a new iron just making is debut. I gotthree specimens a little larger then what I had seen others selling. I am interested inhearing what it is classified as. There are some conflicting reports of what is seenwhen it is cut and etched..

I had done OK and headed back to where Paul was just finishing up getting somegreat pieces he had wanted to look at. He had done well also. It was hot and time fora drink. Paul had gotten me a diet coke but I had laid it down to look at meteoritesand walked away without it after only a swallow or two. So I was still thirsty. Little didI know it would be a while before I got anything else to drink. We had to resupply onone of our best selling meteorites and we knew where we could get some. We hadnot visited this dealer in probably 10 years. But, we were really unhappy with thequality we were seeing at our regular suppliers. We were so happy that we tried this“new” place. The quality was better than we had seen in a couple years and theprice was too. We cherry picked two or three kilos and found some other meteoritesin addition. Got to know them a little better and made a nice contact for the future.We said goodbye after handing them a nice check and it was time to go see Erichand Silvia.

We never go to Tucson without stopping to see the Haiderers and spend a couplehours with them. We always have a great visit and we find a few things in their roomto sell during the next year or two. This year I guess it has to be the beautiful highly

sculptured Henbury irons that I will remember. And it won’t be hard to rememberactually because the nicest one is now in my collection. But, several people will alsobe pleased when they buy the others from us. I suspect that they will not last long inthe store they are so nice.

This Henbury is so well sculpted that I had a great deal of trouble picking an angle toshot the picture at. It is quite exceptional.

It was early afternoon when we finally finished at the other hotels and made our waybriefly back to the former Inn Suites. The IMCA dinner was that night so we had tobasically kill some time until heading toward El Charro Resaurant. I had been therebefore years ago and knew it was really close to the former Inn suites. I parked thecar in the lot across the street from the restaurant and was locking the door whenthis huge white monster of a car turns into the parking space next to me. I wasbending down to pick up my camera case which I had set on the ground. I was notsure the driver had seen me. I thought for an instant that this was the end I wasgoing to be squashed. But, the driver flashed their high beams to signal that I hadbeen seen. And I moved quickly out of the way as the monstrous car continued tomove forward. We were milling around for a couple minutes before finding seatswhen Anne comes up and announces that it was her driving the monstrous whitesuburban and hoped that I had not been scared. It was only then that I rememberedreading an email to the list stating that she was on her way to Tucson in a giantwhite vehicle. I assured her that I had not been too scared and we laughed. Paul andI found seats and soon had a great group of individuals gathered around us to sharea fun meal. Russ Finny had found us pretty fast and it was great to see him again.

After years of corresponding and sharing a love of tektites neither Paul or I hadformally met Norm Lehrman or his charming wife Cookie. But they seatedthemselves across the table from us and we had a wonderful meal. It was so greatto finally meet them and get a chance to talk. We have so many connections withmutual friends and experiences that it was instantly like old home week meetingthem. We will certainly look forward to seeing them every year in the future. Normtold us something we had never heard of. It seems that he had been conversing withDoug Dawn aka Mexico Doug about shattercone structures in Tatahouine. I wasfascinated by the idea. I had only the small one gram or so piece of Tatahouine that Ihad gotten 20 years ago. But, I would be on a hunt to find a larger piece and look forshattercones. I found one too and it is maybe the most interesting thing I haveexperienced in a while. Though just today I was cutting some Chergach that we hadbeen sitting on for a year or so and noticed that two of our pieces had slickensideson them. So I guess you never know what will come along to impress you again withthe wonder of meteorites.

I think there is a lot more work to do on this. Certainly it would seem that theshattercones must have been produced during the impact event that blasted theasteroid from is parent body. It seems to this writer that it is unlikely that they formedduring the entry and explosion in our atmosphere. Note that they are seen on thecleavage planes of the crystals and not on the regular outside fragment surfaces.

Friday morning we shipped back a box of what we had bought so we would not haveto worry about carrying it around. This was our day to stay at the former Inn Suitesand really get to see most of our friends. As it turned out it was another long day offinding great material to add to our stock. For me it was an opportunity to get a reallynice size piece of Martian meteorite without breaking the bank. NWA 7397 is a mostremarkable meteorite. I found a beautiful half crusted stone that gave a nice view ofits internal structure as well as (for me) a huge amount of fusion crust. I frankly havenot gotten deeply involved in collecting planetary meteorites. I have them of coursein my collection but they are small and there are not that many.

Half crusted fragment of Martian meteorite. Still only 1.7 grams

We always get something from Mike Farmer when we are at the show, and this yearit was slices of a really fine howardite. One of the slices in particular had such hugeinclusions it is going to take some time for me to figure out how to divide it up intosmaller pieces. I hate to reduce those wonderful huge clasts. I saw in his case apiece of Bishopville and asked him about it and he said he had a few more pieces. Isorted though them and found a very nice piece. This was material that had been inthe Center for Meteorite Studies, at ASU and came of course with an id card andspecimen number. Bishopville had basically been unavailable for many years and Inow have a fine specimen with wonderful provenance. Of course it looks just likeseveral other Aubrites and that always makes me think for a moment about what itis that really attracts me to a meteorite. I think it is the history and the storyassociated with the particular stone that often makes it desirable. Mike had nocontainer that was safe enough for the fragile stone so he said he would bring in amembrane box or something to hold it and that was fine I would pick it up later. Latercame on Sunday and I again checked out the really incredible slices of Springwaterhe had. We had talked to Marlin Cilz earlier about them and I could not get them outof my mind. There is something about a pallasite that is cut thin, polished perfectand also beautifully etched that just makes them outstanding. I was buying a lot lessnumbers of specimens but the quality was way better this year. So far nearly all thepieces were former museum pieces or pieces that were (sorry for this) out of thisworld beautiful.

We had stopped for just a second to say hi to Pani Ahmed the first day and nowwas our chance to go back and visit longer. It is always great to see him. Paulstarted making a small pile of LDG soon after we arrived at his room and I soon hada small pile of chondrite stones from a batch that had come in the same morning. Ialso found a really neatly twisted Sikhote Alin shrapnel piece. We chatted for a fewminutes and got caught up on what had been happening with him. We told him wewould stop back to say goodbye before leaving on Sunday.

Down the same side of the rooms was Edwin Thompson’s room and we had notspent enough time there yet. So we parked ourselves there for a fun visit. We endedup buying some wonderful meteorites from them. Some on this visit and some onSunday right before leaving. But, oh boy what great meteorites. I guess the mostspecial items for me were the twenty or so chunks of Canyon Diablo cut by H. H.Nininger in an attempt to find the little carbonado diamonds. These were trulyhistoric pieces. Once again in keeping with the theme of the trip; great collectorpieces with a very special story.

Above are pictured two specimens of Canyon Diablo cut by H. H. Nininger in a huntfor diamonds. Diamonds are found in the shocked meteorites from the crater rimthat suffered the heat and pressure of the impact. Nininger failed to find diamonds inmeteorite fragments found out on the plains surrounding the crater.

One our first visit to ET’s room I had bought a small piece of Essex an H5 from theCalifornia Desert. I had wanted a piece for a while and this piece needed a home.

When I was a kid my parents drove nearly every weekend to Bullhead City, Arizonaand dragged me along of course. They had intended to retire there. In the end theydid not but they did build two homes there. It was during this building phase that wedrove through Essex every weekend. My parents would never have just gotten onthe interstate even if there had been one. Not if it was five mile shorter distance todrive tiny back water narrow roads. I found out later on another visit to ET’s roomthat the specimen was from Larry Sloan which made me even happier. Larry wasthere and thanked me himself and told me the story of the meteorite and how thiswas the last piece. This is several years in a row that I have run into Larry andgotten something nice from him. So I was really happy I had gotten it and not passedit by like the desk.

We had to figure out what we wanted to do for dinner before the birthday bashcelebration for the Meteorite Men; Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold. We decided to getsomething before the party on our own and have a nice quiet meal. Then enjoy thecrowd and noise and fun. We both had a taste for Chinese food and Paul looked upthe ratings on restaurants near us. He picked one and gave me the directions and Idrove us to it. Wow, what a great meal. Service was spectacular, food wonderful

and abundant. We looked at what they brought us and we both said “that’s a lot offood.” But, not too long later and we had devastated the pile and consumed almostall if it. We skip lunch almost always while in Tucson and we were eating the smallersenior breakfast pretty early so I guess we were hungry.

It was not a long drive to the birthday bash there were some people there when wearrived but soon the room was really filling up. Maria Haas was the MC and plannerthis year and she did a great job. The Harvey Awards were given out and therecipients were as always thrilled to be included in the select group of honorees.Geoff and Steve performed humorously as always and a fun time was had by all.We did not stay until the end, it had been another long day for us so we headed backto the hotel without staying for the music. Saturday was our “do other things day”and it would be another long day.

We usually go to the wholesale show down near the Holiday Inn. I find somethingnice for Sara and get some supplies for the next year’s jewelry making. I was lookingto get some sterling wire and was surprised at how poor the supply was. I found onetype of bezel wire I could use and nothing else. In another tent I found some findingsthat I wanted for pendants but no wire like I needed.

We headed just down the street to the show over by the medical center which usedto be called the Tucson Electric Park. But, I did not see signs saying that this yearso maybe that name has changed too. I wanted to get some information from thelapidary suppliers there on tumbling and get some diamond polish for my ruby work.I did not have much of my 14000 mesh polish left. The price was really pretty goodon the diamond polish so I got some 8,000 mesh too. I have some unakite thatneeds to be polished with it also. I have found that several of my regular stones alsowork quite well with diamond polish. I talked to some people about tumbling and gotsome info and some catalogues.

We had really done well and were close to the end of the budget we had set. Wehad shipped two batches of meteorites home and three dealers were shippingmeteorites to us. We headed to our meeting at the Outback restaurant near ourhotel. We have both been watching what we eat for several months and I was readyto dig into a nice steak and I think Paul was also. We had a nice celebration of asuccessful Tucson Gem Show. Tomorrow was basically say goodbye day and killtime until our flight left.

We were leaving later then most years not until 6:15 in the evening so we did havemost of the day. We headed to the former Inn Suites and started at Pani’s room. Wesaid goodbye and wished him a great remaining show time. Then headed down totake a look for that Tatahouine piece with shattercones that I wanted from the dealerwe had bought from for several years. With all the larger pieces of Tatahouine wehave sold over the years I had never looked at them microscopically or evenupgraded to a larger collection piece.

We already knew he did not have much with him this year but hoped he might havea few larger pieces I could look through for the shattercones. The very first piece Ilooked at had them and it was the best representative that he had so it had to be thepiece I would get. You have already seen the pictures and read my comments

above about this. We said goodbye to him. As we left the room ET called me backover to his room and I said I would met Paul later. But, ET said Paul needs to cometoo so I yelled for Paul before he turned the corner and we both headed up the fewrooms to ET’s suite.

We thought we were done buying material but what can I say. There were someboxes of meteorites that we just could not pass by. We buy these all the time andnone that we buy were as nice as these or with the history these specimens had.So we “took the lot” as Harry Potter might say about candy from the trolley. And wehad been thinking about something else ET had for a day or two and decided wewere nuts if we did not take those too. So we had a great morning on Sunday gettingsome more fabulous meteorites. A couple of each would somehow make their wayto my collection.

Gradually we got around the hotel to say goodbye and thank everyone. We had acouple hours left so we drove over to the Ramada and made the rounds there too.And wouldn’t you know we got a few more things over there. I had made it right up tothe last two hours without buying any glass except for one really nice piece of LDG. Ihad survived a meal with Norm and Cookie talking about tektites and not bought anythe following days. But, I failed at the last tent I walked into. There were somewonderful large Chinese tektites and the price was really good. So five tektites foundtheir way into my luggage wrapped in newspaper I could not read. And after sayingour parting fairwells to Mike Miller and Blaine Reed we headed to the airport reallysatisfied that we had done very well this year at getting what we needed and somegreat material besides.

It took me another five days to finish the desk and get it moved into my office. Itturned out fantastic. I got the peeling veneer all glued back down. It took every Cclamp and clamping device I had to do some of the surfaces but I got them fixed. Ireplaced what I had to with new veneer. I was afraid I would never get the bigblue/black ink stain out of the top of the actual working surface but I did. After thedesk was done I could get back to meteorites. I have been working everyday onthem so we can fill the catalogue back up that was so depleted at Christmas time.Soon I will get a day or two to play with some of the unclassified stones I brought

back from the gem show. But, I think those days are still a few days off. It is back tothe garage for me now that this article is done to cut some more and clean somemore meteorites for the business. But it is all fun and there is always a surpriseinside the next stone I put in the saw.

Next issue will be the final part of last year’s vacation story that is taking a while toget to now that we are every other month as a publication. Till then enjoy, Jim

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Meteorite Times MagazineTissint Martian Meteoriteby John Kashuba

Tissint is the fifth witnessed Martian meteorite fall. It is a Shergottite. Many pieces totalingover 7 kg fell east of Tata, Morocco about 2 AM, July 18, 2011. The stones have a shinyblack fusion crust which is glossier over olivine macrocrysts. Olivine macrocrysts andmicrophenocrysts are held in a finer groundmass of pyroxene, plagioclase (shocked tomaskelynite) and other minerals. Small melt pockets and thin veins of black glass arepresent.

Larger olivine crystals are surrounded by a finer groundmass of pyroxene, plagioclase andother minerals. Field of view is 6.2 mm wide. Thin section in cross-polarized light.

Olivine crystals with cracks and small inclusions. Field of view is 3 mm wide. Thin section incross-polarized light.

Olivine crystals with planar fractures in three orientations. Field of view is 2 mm wide. Thinsection in cross-polarized light.

Olivine with inclusion and radiating cracks. Field of view is 0.37 mm wide. Thin section incross-polarized light.

Olivine with inclusion and radiating cracks. Field of view is 0.37 mm wide. Thin section inincident light.

Black glass shock vein through meteorite groundmass. White grains are maskelynite. Fieldof view is 3 mm wide. Thin section in plane transmitted light.

Black glass shock vein through meteorite groundmass. White grains are maskelynite. Fieldof view is 3 mm wide. Thin section in plane transmitted light.

Black glass shock vein through meteorite groundmass and through a few mineral grains.Field of view is 3 mm wide. Thin section in cross-polarized light.

Black glass shock vein through a few mineral grains. Field of view is 1.2 mm wide. Thinsection in cross-polarized light.

Section through a melt pocket. White is a void. It is surrounded by swirled brown and blackmelt glass. Field of view is 3 mm wide. Thin section in plane transmitted light.

Swirled brown and black glass in a melt pocket. The round white area is a void. Field of viewis 1.2 mm wide. Thin section in plane transmitted light.

Glass with bubbles swirled and frozen in a melt pocket. The glass in Tissint contains Martianatmosphere. At lower right, minute crystals grew on the wall of the pocket in the short timethe melt was cooling. Field of view is 0.3 mm wide. Thin section in plane transmitted light.

NORM’S TEKTITE TEASERS: A folded Lei gong mo tektite

By Norm Lehrman (www.tektitesource.com)

Every year after the big Tucson show, people ask : “what was your favorite tektite find ?” (We also look forward to this answer; we go to Tucson wondering what new treasure we will find!) Here it is. Tucson Tektite 2013. We spent days sorting through every box and bin of tektites we could find, piece by piece by piece. Tektites have virtually infinite variety. There is always opportunity for something completely new and amazing.

The trick is in maintaining both an open mind and total concentration as thousands of tektites cascade past your (sometimes bleeding) fingertips. If you fixate on one target, you can easily miss the unanticipated oddity, and the truly unique can’t be anticipated. Tucson Tektite 2013 is the first example of its kind that we have ever seen (although the collapsed bubble in my column from April, 2012, is a close cousin). TT2013 is a stretched ribbon of tektite glass that folded over and rewelded. Imagine stretching a blob of silly putty until it ultimately snaps, collapses, and elastically retracts, flapping and welding into a perfect 180 degree fold! I am still thrilled to hold this fantastic piece! It is in our private collection for now. It’s still way too soon to let go--- 10.5 grams, Lei gong mo. Enjoy!

Meteorite Times MagazineMeteorite Calendar – March 2013by Anne Black

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Meteorite Times MagazineOcotillo Meteorite – 232 gramsby Editor

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Meteorite Times MagazineAmazing Folded Lei gong mo Tektiteby Editor

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