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| Basic information | Name: Sarvestan This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2012 Country: Iran Mass:  40 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 83 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, IVA. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, IVA irons, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 3 Feb 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 105:
Sarvestan 29°18’ N, 53°8’ E Fars, Iran Find: 2012 Classification: Iron meteorite (IVA) History: Found by Ghasem Karimi Dehnavi in 2012 during a meteorite search. The meteorite was abraded on all faces and etched by the finder before being sent to CEREGE. Therefore the initial mass can only be estimated. Physical characteristics: After being abraded and etched by the finder, the meteorite has an ovoid shape and displays a fine Widmansttäten patterns. Petrography: Fine octahedrite structure with minor fine inclusions of schreibersite and troilite. Bandwith is 0.3-0.5 mm. Geochemistry: Bulk composition (INAA, John T. Wasson, UCLA): Co = 3.89 mg/g; Ni = 77.2 mg/g; Ga = 2.28 μg/g; As = 3.35 μg/g; Ir = 2.57 μg/g; Au = 0.864 μg/g; Ge not determined. The meteorite plots in the IVA fields on element-Au diagrams. Its composition is slightly lower in Au and As but the same in Ni as the mean of two Gibeons used to define the low Au, As end of the Gibeon compositional range. Classification: Iron, IVA, fine octahedrite Specimens: Main mass 22 g in CEREGE, 0.6 g INAA slab in UCLA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB105 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
CEREGE: CEREGE
BP 80
Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois
13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4
France, France (institutional address; updated 29 Oct 2018) UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 105, MAPS 52, 2411, September 2017. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12944/full
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Statistics: This is 1 of 5 approved meteorites from Fars, Iran This is 1 of 377 approved meteorites from Iran (plus 1 unapproved name) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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