Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Dhofar 1760

MetSoc Home Publications Contacts

Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 15 Apr 2024
Search for:	Search type:	Search limits:	Display:	Publication:
Names Text Places Classes Years	Contains Starts with Exact Sounds like	NonAntarctic Falls Non-NWAs Has strewnfield		What's new in the last:
Include past classifications in search		Has photo	Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:

Dhofar 1760

Basic information

Name: Dhofar 1760
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: Dho 1760
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: Oman
Mass: 1150 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 102	(2013)	H6
Recommended:			H6 [explanation]

This is 1 of 6825 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as H6. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 25 Jun 2013

Writeup

Writeup from MB 102:

Dhofar 1760 (Dho 1760) 18°36’37.3"N, 54°13’24.9"E

Zufar, Oman

Found: Jan 2011

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H6)

Petrography: (G. Lucas, UAb) Chondrules display porphyritic olivine or pyroxene, barred olivine and cryptocrystalline textures. The presence of minor opaque shock melt veins, as well as irregular and planar fractures, and undulatory extinction in olivine and pyroxene indicates moderate shock (S3).

Geochemistry: (C. Herd and G. Lucas, UAb) Olivine 18.6±0.4 (n=47); Low-Ca Pyroxene Fs_16.6±0.5Wo_1.2±0.4(n=54).

Specimens: 26.1 g type specimen on deposit at UAb. Main mass, including thin section, at SQU.

Data from:
  MB102
  Table 0
  Line 0:

State/Prov/County:	Zufar
Date:	Jan 2011
Latitude:	18°36'37.3"N
Longitude:	54°13'24.9"E
Mass (g):	1149.5
Pieces:	1
Class:	H6
Shock stage:	S3
Weathering grade:	W2
Fayalite (mol%):	18.6±0.4 (n=47)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	16.6±0.5 (n=54)
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.2±0.4 (n=54)
Classifier:	C. Herd and G. Lucas, UAb
Type spec mass (g):	26.1
Type spec location:	UAb
Main mass:	SQU
Comments:	Field number O-34; submitted by C. Herd

Institutions
and collections

UAb: 1-26 Earth Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E3, Canada, Canada; Website (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
SQU: Sultan Qaboos University, College of Science, Earth Sciences Department, P.O. Box 36 Code 123 AlKhoud, Oman (institutional address; updated 5 Oct 2014)

Catalogs:

References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015

Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:

Geography:

Oman

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(18° 36' 37"N, 54° 13' 25"E)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 2167 approved meteorites from Zufar, Oman (plus 26 unapproved names)
This is 1 of 3998 approved meteorites from Oman (plus 441 unapproved names)

Proximity search:

Also see:

This lists the most popular meteorites among people who looked up this meteorite.

Revision
history:

This lists important revisions made to data for this record.

Direct link to this page