![]() |
||
|
Thiel Mountains 07016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic information | Name: Thiel Mountains 07016 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: TIL 07016 Observed fall: No Year found: 2007 Country: Antarctica [Collected by Korean Expedition for Antarctic Meteorites (KOREAMET)] Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 78 approved meteorites classified as Pallasite. [show all] Search for other: Metal-rich meteorites, Pallasites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 30 Aug 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup![]() |
Writeup from MB 103:
Thiel Mountains 07016 (TIL 07016) 85°20.24’S, 87°56.69’W Antarctica Found: 2007 Jan 4 Classification: Pallasite Petrography: The rock consists of nearly equal proportion of metal (kamacite and taenite) and rounded olivine grains with iron sulfide, schreibersite and chromite as minor minerals. Geochemistry: Siderophiles in metal measured by INAA (UCLA, J.T. Wasson): Ni 124 mg/g, Ga 20 μg/g, Ge 46 μg/g, As 23 μg/g, Ir 0.19 μg/g and Au 2.6 μg/g. Olivine: Fa12.1. Oxygen isotopic composition: δ18O = 3.31‰, δ17O = 1.57‰ and Δ17O = -0.16‰ measured at UCLA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB103 Table 0 Line 0: |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Plots: | O isotopes: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Institutions and collections |
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) Seoul-NU: Department of Earth Science Education, Room# 13-426, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 151-748, South Korea (institutional address; updated 20 Dec 2014) KOPRI: Korea Polar Research Institute, 26 Songdomirae-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Korea, 406-840, South Korea; Website (institutional address; updated 20 Dec 2014) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalogs: |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 103, MAPS 52, 1014, May 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12888/full
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Geography:![]() |
Statistics: This is 1 of 44248 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Proximity search: |