Michael Casper let me handle a nice piece a few years back - same type as yours - the interesting thing was the density - it was much lighter than I expected, as it formed under 1/3 gravity - (didn't worry about contamination, as Casper seemed in fine health, but who knows?)

I've even previously defended Dean Bessey's sale of specks produced during Martian meteorite processing - but this has simply got ot stop - the data being lost is too valuable - it's going to cost us a real chunk of change ot get fresh samples, and that gives you some idea of the value of these specimens -

I don't like the taking of property without compensation - my thinking is that when a meteorite is identified as being from Mars, the handling stops, it goes into a sealed container, the owner is compensated, the meteorite is sent to LPI in Houston, and the lab sterilized -

EP