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Basic information | Name: Dar al Gani 876 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: DaG 876 Observed fall: No Year found: 1998 Country: Libya Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 307 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as Martian (shergottite). [show all] Search for other: Martian meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 85:
Dar al Gani 876 Libya Found 1998 May 7 Martian meteorite (basaltic shergottite) A 6.216 g stone was found by an anonymous meteorite hunter on the plateau of the upper Sarir Qattusah. Classification and mineralogy (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart, and D. Ackermand, Kiel): a basaltic shergottite with affinity to lherzolitic shergottites; texture is porphyritic, with larger olivines in a fine-grained groundmass of pyroxene and maskelynite; pigeonite, En59–66Wo8–14; augite, En45–52 Wo33–37; maskelynite, An56–74Or0.2–1.2; olivine, Fa37–38; pyrrhotite has up to 2.5 wt% Ni. Possibly paired with Dar al Gani 476, 489, 670, and 735. Specimens: main mass with anonymous finder; type specimens, 0.7 g, NHM, and 0.6 g and a polished thin section, Bart. | ||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB85 Table 3 Line 138: |
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Institutions and collections |
Kiel: Geologisches und Mineralogisches Museum, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Ludewig-Mayn-Str. 10, D-24118 Kiel, Germany, Germany (institutional address; updated 13 Sep 2013) NHM: Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom; Website (institutional address; updated 9 Dec 2011) Bart: Bartoschewitz Meteorite Laboratory, Weiland 37, D-38518 Gifhorn, Germany; Website (private address; updated 30 Nov 2019) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 85, MAPS 36, A293-A322 (2001)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 1046 approved meteorites from Al Jufrah, Libya This is 1 of 1547 approved meteorites from Libya (plus 23 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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