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NWA 8171   contributed by Gourgues Denis   MetBul Link

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Also known as Black Beauty.

Micro   Martian (basaltic breccia)

TKW 81.9 grams. Fall not observed. Found 2013.

Gourgues writes:
This is my little black beauty endcut . What it is this structure - saw marks or natural stripes?


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gourgues denis
 9/4/2015 3:11:00 AM
I like that !!!..maybe or maybe not... Thanks John...
John Divelbiss
 9/3/2015 3:23:51 PM
maybe this is an out of this world Spinifex texture?? olivine phenocrysts in such a pattern...possibly???
gourgues denis
 9/3/2015 6:53:06 AM
Thanks everybody.... Therefore it's a natural structure on fusion crust of BB ......(the second Picture on the right;here ~>..171,is the matrix).
John Divelbiss
 9/3/2015 6:34:59 AM
Unless it is some weird crust/surface phenomena in a tiny little piece of BB, my vote is for "Life"...as in wormlike creatures who left there wandering paths in the BB stone!!! finally PROOF of life on MARS... in the Twilight Zone.
Plagioklas
 9/3/2015 6:29:27 AM
Some of the inclusions in the black beauty have this structure.
Thomas Stalder
 9/3/2015 5:39:18 AM
I purchased a few micro fragments before the Ensisheim show directly from the owner/cutter of NWA 8171. I guarantee that this is a authentic sample. Thomas/saharagems
gourgues denis
 9/3/2015 5:08:07 AM
Many choices... And I chose this one, just for this texture...
gourgues denis
 9/3/2015 4:55:11 AM
Saharagems.... Suisse friends Ensisheim stand this year. ....
Graham
 9/3/2015 4:50:32 AM
Gourgues...never seen anything like that in BB...my first reaction would be to question if it is BB...could be, but can't understand how that texture is associated with BB...what provenance does it have?
 

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