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Elqui | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Elqui This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1990 Country: Chile Mass: 260 g | ||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 148 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 82:
Elqui Chile Recognized before 1990 Iron, hexahedrite (IIAB) A 260 g iron meteorite was found in the mineral collection of Antonio Alphonso when this was purchased by LSC. Classification and description (J. T. Wasson, UCLA; see Wasson and Canut de Bon, 1997): composition indicates that this specimen is not paired with other Chilean hexahedrites (Ni = 5.96%, Ga = 59 ppm, Ge = 168 ppm, Ir = 1.94 ppm, Au = 0.663 ppm). Specimens: main mass, LSC; type specimen, UCLA. | ||||||||||||||||
Institutions and collections |
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) LSC: Museo Mineralogico Ignacio Domeyko, Universidad de La Serena, Casilla 554, La Serena, Chile (institutional address) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 3446 approved meteorites from Chile (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||
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