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| Basic information | Name: Fermo This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1996 Country: Italy Mass:  10.2 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 85 approved meteorites classified as H3-5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 82:
Fermo Marche, Italy Fell 1996 September 25, ~15:30 UT Ordinary chondrite (H3-5) A farmer, Mr. Luigi Benedetti, heard an explosion followed a few seconds afterwards by a crash on September 25. Two days later, Mr. Giuseppe Santarelli recovered a 10.2 kg stone from the place described by Benedetti. Classification and mineralogy (A. M. Fioretti and G. Molin, CNR; see Molin et al., 1997): a breccia of millimeter to centimeter-sized light and dark clasts in a gray matrix; one type 3 clast contains glass and has range of olivine, Fa2–27, and pyroxene, Fs2–22; an equilibrated clast has olivine, Fa18.2; matrix olivine uniform at Fa17.4. All specimens, PMVV. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
PMVV: Polar Museum, Villa Vitali, Fermo (AP), Italy (institutional address; updated 3 Mar 2011) CNR: Instituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, Sez. Di Padova, Corso Garibaldi 37, 35100 Padova, Italy (institutional address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Marche, Italy (plus 1 unapproved name) This is 1 of 42 approved meteorites from Italy (plus 23 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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