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Yamato 790113 | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Yamato 790113 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: Y-790113 Observed fall: No Year found: 1979 Country: Antarctica [Collected by National Institute of Polar Research, Japan] Mass: 19 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 407 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MN J6(1):
Y-790113, 82-2: Eucrite Angular complete stone with black shiny fusion crust, some parts of which are broken. Polymict eucrite. A stained lithic crust 1x0.8 mm in size is seen on a side face. A polymict HED breccia with subrounded clasts and fragments set in dark comminuted matrix. Eucritic clasts include a glassy clast with skeletal phenocrysts of pyroxene, very fine-grained eucrites and a part of coarse-grained eucrites. Dominant pyroxene fragments are fragments of coarse-grained basalts. Brownish pyroxene with very fine exsolution is present. | ||||||||||||||||
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References: | Published in Meteorites news : Japanese collection of Antarctic meteorites /Meteorites news : Japanese collection of Antarctic meteorites ,6(1),1-47 (1996-03) Never published in the Meteoritical Bulletin
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Statistics: This is 1 of 44400 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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