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| Basic information | Name: Allan Hills A76003 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: ALHA76003 This meteorite may also be called Allan Hills 76003 (ALH 76003) in publications. Observed fall: No Year found: 1976 or 1977 Country: Antarctica [Collected jointly by ANSMET (US) and NIPR (Japan)] Mass:  10.5 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12780 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 56:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE ALLAN HILLS A76003, ANTARCTICA, STONY METEORITE Name: ALLAN HILLS A76003 Place of find: West of Allan Nunatak on the edge of the Polar plateau, Victoria Land, Antarctica. 76°44'11"S., 159°20'47"E. Date of find: January 18, 1977. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Olivine Fa24.6. Number of individual specimens: 3 Total weight: 10.495 kg Circumstances of find: Sighted from a helicopter which was taxiing 10-15 m above the bare ice, during the 1976-1977 season of the U.S.-Japan Joint Antarctic Expedition. Source: K. Yanai, 1978. First meteorites found in Victoria Land, Antarctica, December 1976 and January 1977. Mem. Nat. Inst. Polar Res., Special Issue No. 8, 51-69. Note: Also known as Allan Nunatak No. 3, and as Allan Hills No. 3. Allan Hills A76003 is the name approved by the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society. See also: W.A. Cassidy, E. Olsen and K. Yanai, 1977. Antarctica: a deep-freeze storehouse for meteorites. Science 198, 727-731, where the coordinates of the find site are given as 76°47'29"S., 159°26'44"E., and E. Olsen et al., 1978. Eleven new meteorites from Antarctica, 1976-1977. Meteoritics 13, 209-225. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB76 Table 2 Line 3: |
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| References: | Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 15(2) (1992), JSC, Houston Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 76, Meteoritics 29, 100-143 (1994)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 44543 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
ALHA763 (Added by JNG 2/23/06) Allan Hills No. 3 (Added by JNG 2/23/06) Allan Nunatak No. 3 (Added by JNG 2/23/06) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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