894 views

Over 15,000 photos and growing!


  27 - August - 2020

This Month       Today's Picture       Select a Month

Submit a Picture

Where is My Picture?!

The Queue


Select by   Contributor

Met Name

Met Type

Thin Sections


Recent Comments

LDG   contributed by MPOD Staff   MetBul Link


Roll Overs:     #1   #2   #3   #4    


Click the picture to view larger photos

View all entries for   Meteorite (25)   MPOD Staff (26)


42.2 grams. 70 x 55 x 18 mm.   Desert Glass

Found in the area of the red marker below.




 


MPOD writes:
This piece - a gift from a friend - has lots of christobalites, which are small white inclusions about 1/2 mm in size. They appear black in the first two photos.

There are 2 creases that contain grains of Libyan Desert Sand. One is easily visible in photo 4, just right of the vertical center line and directly across from the little rainbow-y things about 1/3 of the way down on the right. It contains about 10 grains.

The color rendition in photos 1, 2 and 3 is pretty close - light coke bottle green except in the the thicker areas. Photo 4 is an "art shot" that suddenly appeared in the camera when I was moving the light around.

The specimen has been sliced and polished flat to create one face, something you don't often see with LDG. Sadly, it's beyond my abilities to photograph:(


  Click to view larger photos     #1     #2     #3     #4
 


Comment on this MPOD                      
Name
Comment

980 max length

  Please - NO Dealer Ads in the comments
but pictures from dealers are gladly accepted

Tomorrow

Tatahouine
Wendy Swartz

This Month

1 picture in the Queue
Steve Brittenham
 8/27/2020 5:08:28 PM
I love christablites in LDG, and your price really shows them well. I'm sure part of it is the piece, but your photography really does a great job of featuring them too!
John Divelbiss
 8/27/2020 2:13:31 PM
pic #4 looks like rock candy...natural light-bender
Benjamin P. Sun
 8/27/2020 4:33:21 AM
Part of an ancient (impact)explosion captured in time. Amazing.
 

Hosted by
Tucson Meteorites
Server date and time
3/29/2024 6:31:30 AM
Last revised
12/31/23
Terms of Use Unsubscribe