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| Basic information | Name: Dar al Gani 400 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: DaG 400 Observed fall: No Year found: 1998 Country: Libya Mass:  1425 g | ||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 84 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (anorth). [show all] Search for other: Lunar meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 82:
Dar al Gani 400 Libya Found 1998 March 10 Lunar meteorite (anorthositic breccia) A 1.425 kg stone was found in Dar al Gani in the Libyan Sahara. Classification and description (J. Zipfel, MPI): the meteorite is partly covered with a brownish fusion crust; fresh surfaces are gray to dark gray; matrix is well consolidated; clasts include subophitic and fine-grained to microporphyritic impact-melt breccias, granulitic fragments, intergranularly recrystallized anorthosites, and mineral fragments; chemical and O isotope composition is characteristic of lunar highland meteorites (Zipfel et al., 1998b); abundances and composition of noble gases do not suggest a pairing with DaG 262 (Scherer et al., 1998b). For further details, see Zipfel et al. (1998b). Type specimen and two polished sections are with the MPI; main mass with finder. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB82 Table 5 Line 159: |
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| Institutions and collections |
MPI: Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Abteilung Kosmochemie, Postfach 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany; Website (institutional address; updated 7 Nov 2015) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 1046 approved meteorites from Al Jufrah, Libya This is 1 of 1569 approved meteorites from Libya (plus 25 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||
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