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Yamato 000138 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Yamato 000138 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: Y-000138 Observed fall: No Year found: 2000 Country: Antarctica [Collected by National Institute of Polar Research, Japan] Mass: 35.5 g | ||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 104 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-melt breccia. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 12 Dec 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MN J22:
Yamato 000138 (Y 000138) Antarctica Found: 2000 Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, melt breccia) Petrography and geochemistry: The PTS is a melt breccia with a very fine-grained dark matrix. One fourth of PTS shows an aggregate of coarse-grained pyroxenes and deformed plagioclase. The melt matrix contains fragments of pyroxene and plagioclase, and minor FeNi-FeS. Pyroxene compositions of a few grains in the matrix range from Fs30.9-30.8. This meteorite is a melt breccia of HED meteorite. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB102 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
NIPR: Antarctic Meteorite Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan; Website (institutional address; updated 9 Dec 2013) Ibaraki: Department of Materials and Biological Sciences, Institute of Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito 310-8512, Japan (institutional address; updated 27 Feb 2011) |
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References: | Published in Meteorite newsletter : Japanese collection of Antarctic meteorites /Meteorite newsletter : Japanese collection of Antarctic meteorites ,22,1-32 (2013-11) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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Statistics: This is 1 of 44543 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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