Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:42:16 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re:
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Tamar Lindsay wrote:
> This story has everything an old pulp fan could want:
>
> http://www.livescience.com/13581-antarctic-meteorite-mineral-wassonite.html
>
> 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Antarctic Meteorite Yields New Mineral
>
> Found in Antarctica, a rare meteorite, from the
> asteroid belt, with a new mineral form not previously
> found in nature.
>
> Coincidentally, this morning I was just rereading
> The Skylark of Space (1928), having found an old
> paperback of it in a book sale.  In it, a character
> used the phrase "get a wiggle on" - which I had
> never heard outside my family.

But what *was* the mineral? What it an odd member of the platinum group?
And can I get hold of some of it...?

mark "when I grow up, I want to be Dick Seaton...."