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Allan Hills A79014
Basic information Name: Allan Hills A79014
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: ALHA79014
This meteorite may also be called Allan Hills 79014 (ALH 79014) in publications.

Observed fall: No
Year found: 1979
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 10.8 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 4(1)  (1981)  H5
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 76  (1994)  H5
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 11505 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Writeuphelp
Writeup from AMN 4(1):

Sample No.: ALHA79014

Location: Allan Hills

Field No.: 1058

Weight (gms): 10.8

Meteorite Type: H5 Chondrite

 

Physical Description: Roberta Score

All except one surface is covered with a thin brown and black colored fusion crust. That one surface is a planar weathered fracture surface that ranges in color from yellow to reddish brown. Chipping revealed an interior with a small (1 mm) weathering rind. Chondrules are obvious in the unweathered (50% of the stone) interior material. Dimensions: 3.5 x 2 x 1 cm.

 

Petrographic Description: Brian Mason

Chondritic structure is moderately well-developed, chondrules ranging up to 1.8 mm across. The groundmass between the chondrules is fine-grained olivine and pyroxene, with minor amounts of nickel-iron and troilite. Some limonitic staining is present, concentrated around the nickel-iron grains. Microprobe analyses gave the following mineral compositions: olivine, Fa18; pyroxene, Fs16. The meteorite is classified as an H5 chondrite.

Data from:
  MB76
  Table 2
  Line 452:
Origin or pseudonym:Main icefield
Mass (g):10.8
Class:H5
Weathering grade:B
Fayalite (mol%):18
Ferrosilite (mol%):16
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References: Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 4(1) (1981), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 76, Meteoritics 29, 100-143 (1994)
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (76° 43'S, 159° 40'E)
     Recommended::   (76° 43'S, 159° 40'E)

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