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Old 15-12-2006, 10:58 PM
Rob_K
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Sounds like a carbonaceous chondrite - relatively rare, contain chlorite or serpentinite, with olivine and lots of other goodies including organic carbon compounds (new life from the cosmos???). I've seen two in my life, one when I was a small child in Melbourne (can still picture it, but I can't remember what I had for dinner!). Spectacular!

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