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| Basic information | Name: Csátalja This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2012 Country: Hungary Mass:  16 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 6000 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 23 Feb 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 104:
Csátalja 46.006°N, 18.991°E Bacs-Kiskun, Hungary Find: 2012 Aug Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H4) History: Excavated during plowing of a cultivated field on a farm near Csátalja, Hungary, in August 2012. The farm owner brought the stone to Dr. Tibor Hegedűs at the BajaAO, who sent small samples to scientists at the University of Bratislava, University of Eötvös Lóránd and University of Pécs, where initial optical and X-ray diffraction testing confirmed it to be a chondrite. The find location is 4.8 km SE of the village of Csátalja. Physical characteristics: A single brown, roughly equidimensional stone originally weighing ~16 kg. The average value of the magnetic susceptibility is 5136×10-5 SI, with 7448×10-5 SI within the metal of chondrules of the cut and polished surface and 4279-4626×10-5 SI within the uncut original surface. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) The specimen consists of relatively small, round chondrules (0.8±0.3 mm, some up to 2.1 mm) in a recrystallized matrix rich in stained metal. Primary minerals are olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, sodic plagioclase, chromite, merrillite, chlorapatite, troilite and kamacite (partially altered to iron hydroxides). Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa18.6-18.9, N = 3), orthopyroxene (Fs15.8-16.3Wo1.1-1.2, N = 3), clinopyroxene (Fs5.7-5.8Wo45.6-46.4). Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H4). Specimens: A total of 13700 g of material (including the main mass) at BajaAO; one polished thin section at UWB. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB104 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
SI: Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-119, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Jan 2012) UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012) UWB: University of Washington, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 27 Jul 2012) BajaAO: Baja Astronomical Observatory H-6500 Baja, Szegedi ut KT. 766, Hungary; Website (institutional address; updated 3 Oct 2014) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/full
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Bacs-Kiskun, Hungary This is 1 of 8 approved meteorites from Hungary (plus 5 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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