[Rockhounds] enstatite (was) Meteor(sic) releases poison gas

[Kitty & Bill Heacox]

At 02:22 PM 9/18/2007, Elton wrote:
>Some of the fragments I saw being picked up in the
>video appeared similar to the meteorite Norton County:
>an Aubrite, which is almost pure enstatite, MgSiO3.

The following poem would undoubtedly be posted by Richard Dale if he 
weren't getting ready to go on vacation tomorrow:
Aloha,Kitty

The Judgement

I dreamed the judgement came to me by night
They stood around my bed, severe of mein
And asked one question "what is enstatite?"

"It is an orthorhombic pyroxene,"
I said, and as I spoke I heard the jangle
Of planets crashing down the cosmic seas.

I added hastily: "It's cleavage angle
is eighty-seven (more or less) degrees.
If it were fifty-six, not eighty-seven

We should, quite clearly, have an amphibole."
At this they swept me, singing up to heaven,
Where angels' hands received my battered soul.

R.P. Lister, 1960