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Alatage Mountain 017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Alatage Mountain 017 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: AM 017 Observed fall: No Year found: 2013 Country: China Mass: 129.2 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 8876 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L5. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 23 Nov 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 103:
Alatage Mountain 017 (AM 017) 41°41’13.4"N, 92°56’21.9"E Xinjiang, China Found: 1 May 2013 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L5) History: An expedition found 42 meteorites between 30 April and 1 May 2013 in a 2.7 × 1.4 km area 80 km east of Alatage Mountain. The expedition included Bingkui Miao, Yangting Lin, Shijie Li, Deqiu Dai, Wenjie Shen, Sen Hu, Lei Kesi, Peng Wang, and Zhipeng Xia. Physical characteristics: Total mass: 129.2 g (only 1 piece) no fusion curst, gray surface Petrography: Chondrule types mainly include barred olivine, granular olivine, and porphyritic olivine-pyroxene. The matrix is coarse-grained and the feldspars have sizes over 2 μm. Shock-induced metal-sulfide veins and melt pockets are pervasive. Many mineral grains are heavily fractured. More than 50% of metal and sulfide is oxidized. Geochemistry: Minerals are uniform. Olivine: Fa22.4±0.9 (n=10); low-Ca pyroxene: Fs118.8±0.9Wo1.8±0.8 (n=10) Classification: Ordinary chondrite L5; S5; W2. Specimens: 26 g sample and one thin section are deposited in GUT. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB103 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
GUT: College of Earth Sciences, Guilin University of Technology, 12 Jiangan Road, Guilin 541004, China (institutional address; updated 18 Oct 2012) Beijing: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China (institutional address; updated 16 Oct 2011) |
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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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Statistics: This is 1 of 345 approved meteorites from Xinjiang, China (plus 6 unapproved names) This is 1 of 514 approved meteorites from China (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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