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Grosvenor Mountains 95534 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Grosvenor Mountains 95534 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: GRO 95534 Observed fall: No Year found: 1995 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 17.9 g | ||||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 451 approved meteorites classified as Howardite. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, HED achondrites, and Howardites | ||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from AMN 19(2):
Macroscopic Description: Cecilia E. Satterwhite The exterior surfaces of these achondrite meteorites have smooth, shiny black fusion crust over seventy five percent of their surface. Areas where fusion crust has been plucked away reveal a gray matrix . The interior reveals a gray fine-grained texture with abundant white inclusions. A few green and black minerals are present. Minor oxidation is present. Thin Section (GRO95534,3; 95535,5) Description: Brian Mason The sections are so similar that a single description will suffice; the meteorites are probably paired. They show a groundmass of comminuted pyroxene (orthopyroxene and pigeonite) and plagioclase (grains up to 0.2 mm), with a few larger mineral clasts and rare polymineralic clasts up to 2.5 mm across. Microprobe analyses show a wide range in pyroxene composition: Wo1-40, Fs20-60, En33-79, but with orthopyroxene clustered around Wo8Fs53 to Wo40Fs27 with fairly uniform En content. Plagioclase composition is An86-93. An SiO2 polymorph, probably tridymite, is present in accessory amounts. The meteorites are howardites. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB82 Table A1 Line 168: |
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References: | Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 19(2) (1996), JSC, Houston Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 44547 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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