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Meteorite Hills 00855

Basic information

Name: Meteorite Hills 00855
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MET 00855
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass: 9.1 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

Writeup from AMN 26(1):

Sample No.:	MET 00855
Location:	Meteorite Hills
Field No.:	13435
Dimensions (cm):	3.0x2.25x1.25
Weight (g):	9.094
Meteorite Type:	Diogenite

Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
20% of the exterior is covered with a smooth, brown fusion crust. The interior is yellow-orange in color. It has a coarse, crystalline texture with platy or cubic crystals. The meteorite is very friable.

Thin Section (, 2) Description: Tim McCoy


Plane-Polarized Light	Cross-Polarized Light

The section exhibits a groundmass of orthopyroxene, with large (up to 5 mm) single orthopyroxene crystals and large metal and sulfide grains. Orthopyroxene is homogeneous at Fs₂₇Wo₂. The Fe/Mn ratio of the pyroxene is ~28. The meteorite is a diogenite.

Data from:
  MB87
  Table A1
  Line 98:

Mass (g):	9.09
Class:	Dio
Weathering grade:	B/C
Ferrosilite (mol%):	27

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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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Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photographs from AMN:
Photograph from unknown source	A photo is in the write-up above

Geography:

Antarctica

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

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

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