| MetSoc Home Publications Contacts |
|
||
|
||
| Dhofar 2047 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic information | Name: Dhofar 2047 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: Dho 2047 Observed fall: No Year found: 2014 Country: Oman Mass:  4.95 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 329 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia). [show all] Search for other: Lunar meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 7 May 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 105:
Dhofar 2047 (Dho 2047) 19°19.900’N, 54°47.146’N Zufar, Oman Find: 2014 Mar 12 Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia) History: Found by a prospector. Physical characteristics: Fusion crust is absent. Petrography: Brecciated. Plagioclase is stained pink from hematite. No petrography in thin section was carried out because of the small stone mass. Geochemistry: Bulk composition (R. Korotev, WUSL) INAA of subsamples gave the following mean abundances (in wt.%) FeO 3.1, Na2O 0.35; (in ppm) Sc 4.6, La 0.8, Sm 0.33, Eu 0.74, Yb 0.26, Lu 0.040, Th 0.09. Classification: Lunar (feldspathic breccia). The stone is indistinguishable in lithophile element composition from Dhofar 303, 305, 306, 309, 310, 908, 911, and 1085 and was found 0.7-1.6 km away from these. Specimens: 1.14 g at UAb. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB105 Table 0 Line 0: |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
WUSL: Washington Univ., One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) UAb: 1-26 Earth Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E3, Canada, Canada; Website (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catalogs: |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 105, MAPS 52, 2411, September 2017. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12944/full
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Photos: |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Geography:
|
Statistics: This is 1 of 2169 approved meteorites from Zufar, Oman (plus 24 unapproved names) This is 1 of 4006 approved meteorites from Oman (plus 436 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Proximity search: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||