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Meteorite Hills 01210
Basic information Name: Meteorite Hills 01210
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MET 01210
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 22.8 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 27(1)  (2004)  Lunar (anorthositic breccia)
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 88  (2004)  Lunar-anorthositic
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  Lunar (anorth)
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 30(2)  (2007)  Lunar (anorthosite-bearing basaltic fragmental breccia)
Recommended:  Lunar (anorth)    [explanation]

This is 1 of 83 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (anorth).   [show all]
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Writeup from AMN 27(1):
Sample No.: MET 01210
Location: Meteorite Hills
Field No.: 13805
Dimensions (cm):   4.0x2.2x1.7
Weight (g): 22.83
Meteorite Type: Lunar-Anorth. Breccia
    MET01210

Macroscopic Description: Cecilia Satterwhite
30% of this meteorite’s exterior has brown/black fusion crust with some oxidation. The interior is a light gray matrix with abundant clasts. Minor weathering is visible. Gray, white and cream colored inclusions are visible on the exterior and interior.

Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy, Linda Welzenbach
The section shows a groundmass of comminuted pyroxene (up to 3 mm) and plagioclase with fine- to coarse-grained basaltic clasts ranging up to 1 mm. Most of the pyroxene is augite with compositions ranging from Fs37-84Wo13-36 (Fe/Mn ~ 70), and plagioclase An90-96. The meteorite is lunar, probably an anorthositic regolith breccia.


MET 01210 - Cross-Polarized Light MET 01210 - Plane-Polarized Light MET 01210 - Cross-Polarized Light MET 01210 - Plane-Polarized Light
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Data from:
  MB88
  Table A1
  Line 442:
Mass (g):22.83
Class:Lunar-A
Weathering grade:B
Ferrosilite (mol%):37-84
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References: Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 27(1) (2004), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 88, MAPS 39, A215-A272 (2004)
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     Recommended::   (79° 41'S, 159° 45'E)

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     This is 1 of 44400 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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