Sample No.: ALHA81059

Location: Allan Hills

Field No.: 1282

Weight (gms): 539.5

Meteorite Type: Mesosiderite

Physical Description: Roberta Score

The exterior of this mesosiderite has many greenish pyroxene grains, which all show cleavage faces. Several of the larger ones (up to 1.5 x 1 cm) can easily be removed. The stone appears to be fairly weathered with many fractures criss-crossing the exterior. A few small patches of fusion crust remain. Weathering of the interior is extensive. Dimensions: 9.5 x 5 x 5.5 cm.

Petrographic Description: Brian Mason

The section consists largely of orthopyroxene clasts ranging up to 10 mm in maximum dimensions, together with about 30% of nickel-iron in grains up to 0.6 mm; a little troilite is present. The meteorite is extremely weathered and seamed with brown limonite. Microprobe analyses shows that the orthopyroxene is somewhat variable in composition, ranging from Fs25 to Fs32, with a mean of Fs28; mean weight per cent CaO is 1.2, MnO 0.7, A12O3 0.6, TiO2 0.2. Small amounts of olivine (Fa28), plagioclase (An93), merrillite, and an SiO2 phase (probably tridymite) were detected with the microprobe. The meteorite is a mesosiderite, the second from the Allan Hills. It appears to be different from the previous one, ALHA77219.