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| Basic information | Name: Sainte Rose This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1983 Country: France Mass:  430 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 43 approved meteorites classified as H3.6. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Revised 9 Jul 2011: Changed country to France | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 65:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE SAINTE ROSE, REUNION, STONY METEORITE Name: SAINTE ROSE Place of find: La Plaine des Palmistes, Sainte Rose, Reunion Island. 21°11'32"S.,55°41'11"E. Date of find: June 1983 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H3). Olivine Fa16-19.5, pyroxenes Fs2-17. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 430 g. Circumstances of find: Found at the bottom of the scoriaceous basaltic Piton Rouge cone, on the Piton de la Fournaise volcano, by P Bachelery. Source: C. Caillet and D. Velde, Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252 Paris Cedex 05; P Bachelery, University de la Reunion, B.P 5, 97490 Ste. Clotilde; J. Kornprobst, University de Clermont Ferrand, 63038 Clermont Fen-and, France. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 65, Meteoritics 22, 157-163 (1987)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Réunion, France This is 1 of 78 approved meteorites from France (plus 12 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Ste. Rose (Ste. abbreviated in MetBase 7.1) | ||||||||||||||||
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