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Ramlat Fasad 025

Basic information

Name: Ramlat Fasad 025
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: RF 025
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2014
Country: Oman
Mass: 47.5 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 104	(2015)	H3-6
Recommended:			H3-6 [explanation]

This is 1 of 76 approved meteorites classified as H3-6. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)

Comments:

Approved 26 Dec 2015

Writeup

Writeup from MB 104:

Ramlat Fasad 025 18°34.903’N, 53°06.749’E

Zufar, Oman

Find: 9 Feb 2014

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H3-6)

History: Found by Edwin Gnos, Beda Hofmann, Thomas Burri, and Marianna Mészáros during a search for meteorites on February 9, 2014.

Physical characteristics: Dark brown individual with attached sand, with remnants of fusion crust.

Petrography: (B. Hofmann, NMBE and E. Gnos, MHNGE) Mean chondrule size 0.70±0.30 mm (n=38).

Geochemistry: (N. Greber and Å. Rosén, Bern) Olivine: mean Fa_16.4±3.9(Fa_1.0-21.6, n=30); pyroxene (n=12): mean Fs_15.8±2.2Wo_1.1±0.5(Fs_9.7-19.2Wo_0.2-1.7). Clast of petrologic type 6 has Fa_19.5±1.9(n=15), Fs_16.8±1.4Wo_1.3±0.3(n=17).

Classification: Based on mineral compositions (mainly of clast of petrologic type 6) this is a brecciated H chondrite with clasts ranging in petrographic grade from 3 to 6. Shock grade S2, weathering W4.

Specimens: All at NMBE

Data from:
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State/Prov/County:	Zufar
Origin or pseudonym:	Desert plain
Date:	9 Feb 2014
Latitude:	18°34.903'N
Longitude:	53°06.749'E
Mass (g):	47.5
Pieces:	2
Class:	H3-6
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	W4
Fayalite (mol%):	16.4±3.9 (N=30)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	15.8±2.2 (N=12)
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.1±0.5 (N=12)
Classifier:	B. Hofmann, N. Greber, E. Gnos
Type spec mass (g):	47.5
Type spec location:	NMBE
Main mass:	NMBE
Finder:	Thomas Burri, Edwin Gnos, Beda Hofmann, Marianna Mészáros
Comments:	brecciated; submitted by Beda Hofmann

Institutions
and collections

NMBE: Natural History Museum Bern Bernastrasse 15 CH-3005 Bern Switzerland, Switzerland; Website (institutional address; updated 2 Mar 2012)
MHNGE: Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Route de Malagnou 1, CH-1211 Genève 6 , Switzerland (institutional address; updated 27 Oct 2011)
Bern: University of Bern, University of Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland (institutional address)

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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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Geography:

Oman

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(18° 34' 54"N, 53° 6' 45"E)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 2167 approved meteorites from Zufar, Oman (plus 24 unapproved names)
This is 1 of 4001 approved meteorites from Oman (plus 436 unapproved names)

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