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Graves Nunataks 06178
Basic information Name: Graves Nunataks 06178
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: GRA 06178
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2006
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 37 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 32(2)  (2009)  L3.5
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 98  (2010)  L3.5
Recommended:  L3.5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 95 approved meteorites classified as L3.5.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 4 Sep 2009
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Writeup from AMN 32(2):
Sample Number GRA 06178
Pairing
Newsletter 32,2
Location Graves Nunataks
Field Number 17765
Dimensions 3.4 x 3.0 x 2.0
Weight 36.98
Original Classification L3.5 Chondrite
Macroscopic Description - Cecilia Satterwhite
85% of this ordinary chondrite‘s exterior is covered with brown/black fusion crust with some oxidation. The interior is a dark gray to black matrix with abundant chondrules and inclusions of various sizes and colors.
Thin Section (,2) Description - Cari Corrigan, Tim McCoy and Linda Welzenbach
The section exhibits numerous large (up to 2 mm), well-defined chondrules in a dark matrix of fine-grained silicates, metal and troilite. Weak shock effects are present. Staining from weathering is pervasive. Silicates are unequilibrated; olivines range from Fa7-35 and pyroxenes from Fs2-5. The meteorite is an L3 chondrite (estimated subtype 3.5).
Antarctic Meteorite Images for Sample GRA 06178
GRA 06178 Meteorite Sample Photograph Showing Group View  GRA 06178 Meteorite Thin Section Photo with 2.5x magnification in Plane-Polarized Light  GRA 06178 Meteorite Thin Section Photo with 2.5x magnification in Cross-Polarized Light 
Data from:
  MB98
  Table 2
  Line 37:
Mass (g):37
Class:L3.5
Weathering grade:B
Fayalite (mol%): 7.0-35
Ferrosilite (mol%): 2.0-5
Classifier:SI
Type spec location:JSC, SI
Main mass:JSC
Comments:Fracturing A
Institutions
   and collections		 JSC: Mailcode KT, 2101 NASA Parkway, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 3 Sep 2013)
SI: Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-119, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Jan 2012)
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References: Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 32(2) (2009), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 98, MAPS 45, 1530-1551 (2010)
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 40129 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 4494 unapproved names)

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