header
  MetSoc Home            Publications            Contacts  
Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 19 Mar 2023
Search for: Search type: Search limits: Display: Publication:
Names
Text help
Places
Classes
Years
Contains
Starts with
Exact
Sounds like
NonAntarctic
Falls  Non-NWAs
What's new
  in the last:
Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:  
Kalahari 001
Basic information Name: Kalahari 001
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: unknown
Country: Botswana
Mass:help 150 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 89  (2005)  H4/5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H4/5
Recommended:  H4/5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 497 approved meteorites classified as H4/5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB89
  Table 1
  Line 37:
Place of purchase:Kuke, Botswana
Mass (g):150
Pieces:1
Class:H4/5
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W2-3
Fayalite (mol%):19
Ferrosilite (mol%):17
Classifier:A. Sokol, A. Bischoff, Mün
Type spec mass (g):22
Institutions
   and collections		 Mün: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 89, MAPS 40, A201-A263 (2005)
Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:
Geography:

Botswana
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 12 approved meteorites from Botswana (plus 1 impact crater)

Direct link to this page