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Allan Hills 88021
Basic information Name: Allan Hills 88021
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: ALH 88021
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1988
Country: Antarctica [Collected by EUROMET consortium]
Mass:help 51 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 70  (1991)  H6
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 11567 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB70
  Table 1
  Line 4:
Mass (g):51.0
Class:H6
Fayalite (mol%):18.8
Ferrosilite (mol%):17.1
Wollastonite (mol%):1.2
Classifier:A. L. Graham and R. Hutchison at The Natural History Museum, London
Type spec location:thin sections are deposited at The Natural History Museum, London
Main mass:Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie, Mainz
Finder:GermanAmerican team
Institutions
   and collections		 Mainz: Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Abteilung Kosmochemie, Postfach 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany; Website (institutional address; updated 7 Nov 2015)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 70, Meteoritics 26, 68-69 (1991)
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (76° 43'S, 159° 20'E)
     Recommended::   (76° 42' 54"S, 159° 22' 2"E)
Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 0.9 km apart

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     This is 1 of 44543 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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