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| Basic information | Name: Zakłodzie This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1998 Country: Poland Mass:  8.68 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites classified as Enst achon-ung. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Enstatite-rich meteorites, Ungrouped achondrites, and Enstatite achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Has slash through letter l
Revised 26 Jun 2007: Revised recommended classification | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 84:
Zakłodzie Zamosc , Poland Found 1998 September Ungrouped enstatite-rich meteorite An 8.68 kg stone partially covered with fusion crust was found b eside a dirt road by Mr. Stanislaw Jachymek while he was searching for rocks and fossils. Classification and mineralogy (F. Wlotzka, MPI; M. Stepniewski, PGI; R. Bartoschewitz, Bart): granoblastic texture, containing ~60 vol% orthoenstatite, ~ 20 vol% metal, ~ 10 vol% troilite, and ~ 10 vol% feldspar, with accessory schreibersite, silica, oldhamite, alabandite, and amphibole; may be similar to QUE 97289; pyroxene grains 0.1–1 mm, subhedral to rounded, Fs<0.1–1.6Wo0.7; feldspar bimodal in composition, Ab59–64An36–41Or0–0.5 and Ab86–89An0–5Or9–12; metal contains 6–16 wt% Ni, 1.6 wt% Si; troilite contains 4.7 wt% Cr, 1.4 wt% Mn, 0.9 wt% Ti. Specimens: main mass, 8.5 kg, NEM; 35 g, PGI; 17 g, Bart; 1 g, MPI. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
Bart: Bartoschewitz Meteorite Laboratory, Lehmweg 53, D-38518 Gifhorn, Germany; Website (private address) MPI: Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Abteilung Kosmochemie, Postfach 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany (institutional address) NEM: Natural-Ethnol. Museum, Guciow 19, PL-22-470 Zwierzyniec, Poland (institutional address) PGI: Polish Geological Institute, ul. Rakowiecka 4, PL-00-975 Warszawa, Poland (institutional address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 84, MAPS 35, A199-A225 (2000)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Zamosc, Poland This is 1 of 21 approved meteorites from Poland (plus 8 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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