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[djellison]

Stu, despite his better judgement, has leant me his fragments of the Martian Zagami Meteorite...

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/zagami.html

I've promised to not eat it, or use it to fertilise geraniums...and I've tried to photograph it as well.

Scanning at 2400dpi was quite good (an excellent way of documenting 'thin' things) and using my Sigma 17-70mm lens..backwards...gave good macro

I can almost convince myself of some olivine grains in there if I stretch the imagery a little.

At something like $3200/gramme, this stuff is valuable. It's a tiny tiny hundredths of gram I'd say - but still about 140x more valuable than gold.

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[mcaplinger]

At something like $3200/gramme, this stuff is valuable.

If you just want an SNC, shergottite is only about $500-$600 gm; see, for example, http://www.meteoritemarket.com/SAU008.htm

[djellison]

only about $500-$600 gm

BARGAIN

Still not tempted to eat it. I'll leave it to Stu to explain the background to that particular story though.