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Meteorite Hills 001031

Basic information

Name: Meteorite Hills 001031
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MET 001031
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass: 6.3 g

Classification
history:

Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:	AMN 26(2)	(2003)	Mesosiderite
Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 88	(2004)	Mesosiderite
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	Mesosiderite
Recommended:			Mesosiderite [explanation]

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Writeup

Writeup from AMN 26(2):

Sample No.:	MET 001031
Location:	Meteorite Hills
Field No.:	12891
Dimensions (cm):	2.0x1.5x1.0
Weight (g):	6.336
Meteorite Type:	Mesosiderite

Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
Smooth brown/black fusion crust with oxidation haloes covers the exterior of this meteorite. It has a rusty crystalline interior with a high metal content intermingled with small patches of gray matrix.

Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy, Linda Welzenbach
The section is a breccia composed of angular isolated grains up to 1.5 mm and clasts of orthopyroxene (Fs₃₀Wo₂), anorthitic feldspar, metal (with included tetrataenite and schreibersite), troilite and oxides. The meteorite appears to be an isolated clast from a mesosiderite.


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Data from:
  MB88
  Table A1
  Line 589:

Mass (g):	6.336
Class:	Meso
Weathering grade:	C
Ferrosilite (mol%):	30

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References:

Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 26(2) (2003), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 88, MAPS 39, A215-A272 (2004)

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Photograph from unknown source	A photo is in the write-up above

Geography:

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(79° 41'S, 159° 45'E)

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This is 1 of 44547 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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