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Meteorite Hills 001060

Basic information

Name: Meteorite Hills 001060
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MET 001060
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass: 9.8 g

Classification
history:

Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:	AMN 26(1)	(2003)	Diogenite
Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 87	(2003)	Diogenite
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	Diogenite
Recommended:			Diogenite [explanation]

This is 1 of 522 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite. [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, Diogenites, and HED achondrites

Writeup

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Writeup from AMN 26(1):

Sample No.:	MET 001060
Location:	Meteorite Hills
Field No.:	12827
Dimensions (cm):	2.0x2.0x1.5
Weight (g):	9.839
Meteorite Type:	Diogenite

MET001060

Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
The exterior of this meteorite is covered with a thick, brown-black fusion crust with polygonal fractures. It has a rough texture with small, shiny patches. The interior is composed of rusty or rust stained crystalline material. It has black accessory minerals and a few rounded, white inclusions. The matrix is mostly greenish in color with rust stained mineral grains with striations on the crystal faces. It is also heavily fractured.

Thin Section (, 2) Description: Tim McCoy


Plane-Polarized Light	Cross-Polarized Light

The section is composed of large (up to 3 mm) orthopyroxene crystals. The meteorite is unbrecciated, with abundant 120° triple junctions, although very minor cataclasis may have occurred along grain boundaries. Orthopyroxene has a composition of Fs₁₉Wo₁ with an Fe/Mn ratio of ~26. The meteorite is an unbrecciated diogenite.

Data from:
  MB87
  Table A1
  Line 144:

Mass (g):	9.84
Class:	Dio
Weathering grade:	C
Ferrosilite (mol%):	19

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References:

Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 26(1) (2003), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003)

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

Geography:

Antarctica

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(79° 41'S, 155° 45'E)

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

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