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Metameur 005
Basic information Name: Metameur 005
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2012
Country: Tunisia
Mass:help 184 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  LL3
Recommended:  LL3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 507 approved meteorites classified as LL3.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 1 Feb 2014
Data from:
  MB103
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Madaniyin
Origin or pseudonym:Deflation surface
Date:Oct 2012
Latitude:33°16'16.60"N
Longitude:10°2'5.00"E
Mass (g):184
Pieces:9
Class:LL3
Weathering grade:W4
Fayalite (mol%):14.3±8.1 (PMD 51%)
Ferrosilite (mol%):6.8±6.1 (PMD 85%)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.1±1.0
Magnetic suscept.:3.22
Classifier:N. Laridhi-Ouazaa, Tunis; J. Gattacceca and A. Hutzler, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):22
Type spec location:Tunis
Main mass:Fabien Kuntz
Finder:Marie Gerbet
Comments:chondrule mean diameter 1.0 mm. Dusty olivines. Cr2O3 in ferroan olivine 0.08 wt.%; submitted by J. Gattacceca
Institutions
   and collections		 CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 2023)
Tunis: Départment du Géologie, Faculté de Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Campus Universitaire El Manar, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia, Tunisia (institutional address; updated 5 Nov 2012)
Kuntz: Fabien Kuntz, France; Website (private address)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 103, MAPS 52, 1014, May 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12888/full
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Geography:

Tunisia
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (33° 16' 17"N, 10° 2' 5"E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 18 approved meteorites from Madaniyin, Tunisia
     This is 1 of 83 approved meteorites from Tunisia (plus 1 unapproved name)
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