[Addendum to AMN 4(1)]

Sample No.: ALHA78100

Location: Allan Hills

Field No.: 439

Weight (gins): 85.0

Meteorite Type: Hexahedrite (IIA)

Physical Description:

This specimen is a thin, flat, slightly irregular plate, 5 cm x 4.5 cm x 0.9 cm. It appears to be an individual that was oriented during atmospheric flight. The anterior surface is rounded at the edges and the posterior surface is flat. Weathering may have been a factor in shaping as the posterior surface is more heavily weathered than the anterior. The posterior surface is covered with an essentially featureless reddish brown oxide. The anterior surface is also oxide covered, but it contains numerous 1 to 2 mm pockmarks. Both surfaces are tool marked from an attempt to cleave the specimen.

Tentative Classification: Roy S. Clarke, Jr.

A microetched median section of approximately 3 cm of surface area was examined. It is single crystal kamacite containing Neumann bands and inclusions. Schreibersite is abundant as rhabdites, and is also present as lamellar schreibersite and as hieroglyphic schreibersite surrounding troilite-daubreelite inclusions. Troilite-daubreelite inclusions are also present with only small bordering schreibersites. The anterior surface edge has an ablation rim of α2 averaging about 0.7 mm wide. No α2 was observed on the posterior surface. Fusion crust was not present, and surfaces are covered with terrestrial oxide up to 0.25 mm thick. The specimen appears to be a hexahedrite or Group IIA meteorite.