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| Basic information | Name: Saint-Aubin This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1968 Country: France Mass:  472 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 338 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Revised 17 Dec 2008: Classification change in MB94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 87:
Saint-Aubin Aube Champagne, France Found 1968 Iron, octahedrite (ungrouped) Five masses of total weight 472 kg were found by farmers while ploughing, within a strewn field a few miles across. Classification (E. Dransart and M. Baron, EMTT): kamacite bandwidth 0.4 mm; bulk composition Ni = 11.5 ± 1%, Co = 4 mg/g, P = 2 mg/g, Ir = 0.02 µg/g, Ga = 28 µg/g, Ge = 83 µg/g. The meteorite contains sarcopside and/or graftonite and needles of schreibersite up to 6 cm in length. It shows typical shock features (Neumann lines and shock-hatched kamacite). Specimens: type specimen 86 g MNHNP; 500 g EMTT; main mass with finders. Writeup from MB 94: The classification of Saint Aubin is in error. It is a high-Ni, high-Au, low-Ir member of the IIIAB group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
MNHNP: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, IMPMC-CP52, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France, France; Website (institutional address) EMTT: Etudes Métallurgiques et de Traitement Thermique, Parc du Chater-Bât. B, 1, avenue du Chater, 69340 Francheville, France (institutional address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 94, MAPS 43, 1551-1588 (2008)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 5 approved meteorites from Champagne-Ardenne, France This is 1 of 77 approved meteorites from France (plus 12 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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