Frass2 Meteorite
About the first of April I was contacted by one of the readers of
MarsLife.com (I'll call him Ed to protect his identity) about a series of
meteorite fragments that he had recovered on a friend's farm.
These samples had been collected over a period of about five years. The
original piece of the meteorite was brought to
him
by a friend that owned the farm. The rock had fallen on the farm. Ed
then gained permission to look for more pieces of the meteorite. Over
time, he was able to collect a number of samples that apparently came from two
different falls that were near each other. He was able to map out the path
of the meteorites and find a fall pattern that indicated one or both had broken
apart in the sky before it landed. The largest piece (in the picture on
the right) was broken off the "mother" piece shown on the left. Most of the other pieces were found separately, but
apparently are from the same "mother" meteorite.
After he sent me pictures of his meteorite, I asked if he could send me a
sample. The samples arrived mid May
and
I have had time to look at them through my microscope. The rock and many
of the pieces appear to me to be a sister rock to the Frass Meteorite,
therefore, I've temporarily
named it Frass2 to protect it's owner. By all
of my observations, this rock could have easily came from the same general
location on Mars as the Frass Meteorite. NASA thinks that all of their
Mars rocks have come from a hand full (3 or 4) Martian asteroid impacts that
caused material to be transported to Earth. If this is true, then it would
not be unusual for the Frass and the Frass2 to have common characteristics.
The most striking feature of the Frass2 is it's beautiful fusion crust.
Allan
Treiman is the only "scientist" to examine the Frass Meteorite and he claimed
that the Frass was not melted enough to be a meteorite.
The Frass is a very thin walled meteorite and handled the heat of entry into our
atmosphere more like a space shuttle heat tile than a typical meteorite. I
believe it belongs to a new class of meteorite which are newly formed from
planetary actions, like the lava of Mars. The Frass2 also belongs to this
class of meteorites, but it's fusion crust is unmistakable and undeniable.
My hope is that the fusion crust of this second surface rock from Mars will
impress the meteoritic community and will compel them to study both the Frass
and the Frass2.
The
Frass2 is also characterized by a butterscotch colored sand that is contained
within it's
vesicles and on the surface. Just as with the Frass, whatever material was
on the outer surface is now melted as the fusion crust and in some places the
sand itself is melted and presents a yellow fusion crust. Most other
places the fusion crust is a black in color, although other colors can be found.
The
sand in the Frass2 vesicles contains the remains of what appears to be plants.
The appearance is very similar to items found in the Frass. They appear to
be
unfossilized remains of roots or other plant or tree parts. They are
completely covered with the sandy material. No dates have yet been taken
on the Frass2 meteorite, but it seems older to me than the Frass, which has its
oldest date of creation at 50 million years ago.
Another interesting feature we see in the Frass Meteorite and on Mars appears
in the Frass2 also.
This is the existence of red and black/grey rock. In the Frass, I believe
the red rock is actually older and has been in the presence of liquid water and
that is what has oxidized the rock and made it red. The grey rock in the
Frass is much younger and doesn't seem to have been wet. Here is the red
black boundary layer in the Frass2.
The
most interesting feature of the Frass2 is the existence of the same filaments as
in the Frass
Meteorite and as described and photographed by Morgellons people. This is
additional evidence that these creatures have been riding meteorites from Mars
to Earth for a very long time and that they continue to this date.
Additional pictures are below. Click on any picture for a larger view.
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