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| Basic information | Name: Castenaso This is NOT an official name: Discredited meteorite. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2003 Country: Italy Mass:  120 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 107:
Castenaso, name discredited.
Castenaso has been discredited as a meteorite name due to significant doubt about the location and date of the find. Trace elements measurements reveal Sr and Ba enrichment and suggest geochemical alteration in a hot desert environment (Folco et al. 2007). Quartz grains found in the external fractures of the meteorite have morphology typical of hot desert aeolian environment. This meteorite is now called Nova 055. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Data from: MB89 Table 8 Line 2: |
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| Institutions and collections |
MNA-SI: Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide, Università di Siena, Via Laterina 8, I-53100 Siena, Italy; Website (institutional address; updated 13 Dec 2011) OAM: Museo del Cielo e della Terra Vicolo Baciadonne 1 40017 San Giovanni in Persiceto ( BO) Italy Osservatorio Astronomico e Museo "Giorgio Abetti", San Giovanni Persiceto, Bologna, Italy; Website (institutional address; updated 31 Oct 2012) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 89, MAPS 40, A201-A263 (2005) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 107, MAPS 55, 460-462
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