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Allan Hills 88046
Basic information Name: Allan Hills 88046
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: ALH 88046
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1988
Country: Antarctica [Collected by EUROMET consortium]
Mass:help 20.7 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 70  (1991)  EH3
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  EH3
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  EH3
Recommended:  EH3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 144 approved meteorites classified as EH3.   [show all]
Search for other: EH chondrites, Enstatite chondrites, Enstatite chondrites (type 3), and Enstatite-rich meteorites
Data from:
  MB70
  Table 1
  Line 23:
Mass (g):20.7
Class:EH3
Ferrosilite (mol%):2.6
Wollastonite (mol%):0.3
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
Plots: O isotopes:  
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' 42"S, 159° 9' 2"E)
Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 4.7 km apart

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     This is 1 of 45500 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3472 unapproved names)
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