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Yamato 693 | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Yamato 693 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: Y-693 Observed fall: No Year found: 1969 Country: Antarctica [Collected by National Institute of Polar Research, Japan] Mass: 150 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 15 approved meteorites classified as CK4/5. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (equilibrated), CK chondrites, CK chondrites (type 4-6), and CV-CK clan chondrites | ||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 52:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE YAMATO (c), ANTARCTICA, STONY METEORITE Name: YAMATO (c) Place of find: Yamato Mountains, Antarctica. Near 71°50'S, 36°15'E. Date of find: December 21 to 26, 1969 Class and type: Stone. Type III carbonaceous chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 150 g Circumstances of find: The Japanese Expedition Team casually collected many stones and brought them back to Japan. Among these stones were 9 that were identified as meteorite specimens. This particular individual was studied at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie, Mainz, Germany. Source: Makoto Shima, Masako Shima and H. Hintenberger. 1973. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 19, 246-249. | ||||||||||||||||
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 52, Meteoritics 9, 101-121 (1974)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 44400 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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Yamato (c) (From MetBase) | ||||||||||||||||
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