| dc.description.transcription | [Called 6/24. Blake Scott wants to keep his pieces (20-25 lbs?) & Gene Scott wants to keep the board of pieces he has. Estimated to total 30-40 lbs.] 1076 [1976] May 31. M.r. Gene Scott, 132 Myrtle Drive Hurst, Tx. 76053 Dear Mr. Scott: Mrr [Mr.] Robert Brown and I greatly enjoyed our interview with you and your folks at Forestburg the day we came up there. I thank you for the sack of little sample fragments, and we finally got around to cutting three of them last Saturday. I am sending you two pieces which I think you will find of Interest if you examine them with a good hand lens under a strong light. Straight sunlight will do fine, or an artificial light indoors. Preferably, you should have a lens with a power of at least 5 or 6 times. Hole [hold] the piece at different angles in the light, and you will see the tiny metallic inclusions shining brightly. Some of these are metallic iron (with a little nickel in it) and these will gradully [gradually] rust with exposure to damp air. The iron is the brightest of the metallic inclusions. Many of the others are [others are] actually an iron sulphide, called “troilite” on meteorites, but actually similar to fool’s gold. If you will look closely at the stony areas you will gradually recognize some little round inclusions or grains, or grains, which are very common in many meteorites, and are "chondrules" after a Greek word for grains. They are composed mostly of olivine or enstatite, which are [which are] magnesium silicates. These samples are all badly oxidized becusetthe [because the] stone is so very old, probably literally thousands if not millions of years. I would still like to get the big chunk I saw that your father had, and I think I told you that day I would give $25.00 for it if Mr. Blake Scott wants to part with it. If you ever decide to sell those you have nounted [mounted] on the board, I'd be interested, too.
Sincerely, | |
