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Reckling Peak A79013
Basic information Name: Reckling Peak A79013
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: RKPA79013
This meteorite may also be called Reckling Peak 79013 (RKP 79013) in publications.

Observed fall: No
Year found: 1979 or 1980
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 11 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 4(1)  (1981)  L5
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 76  (1994)  L5
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  L5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L5
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 8876 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L5.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Writeuphelp
Writeup from AMN 4(1):

Sample No.: RKPA79013

Location: Reckling Peak

Field No.: 1187

Weight (gms): 11.02

Meteorite Type: L5 Chondrite

 

Physical Description: Roberta Score

Stone is totally covered with dull brown and black fusion crust. Chipping exposed mostly weathered material. Two inclusions are visible, both are rounded 2 mm in diameter, and gray in color. Dimensions: 2.5 x 1 x 1.5 cm.

 

Petrographic Description: Brian Mason

Chondritic structure is well developed, with chondrules ranging from 0.3-2.2 mm across. Fusion crust, up to 0.5 mm thick rims most of the section. Brown limonitic staining pervades the section, and is concentrated around the nickel-iron grains and below the fusion crust. Microprobe analyses give the following compositions: olivine, Fa23; pyroxene, Fs20; accessory merrillite was identified with the microprobe. The meteorite is classified as an L5 chondrite.

Data from:
  MB76
  Table 2
  Line 5386:
Mass (g):11
Class:L5
Weathering grade:B/C
Fayalite (mol%):23
Ferrosilite (mol%):20
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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° 16'S, 159° 15'E)
     Recommended::   (76° 13' 35"S, 158° 26' 44"E)
Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 21.8 km apart

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