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Alatage Mountain 030 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Alatage Mountain 030 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: AM 030 Observed fall: No Year found: 2013 Country: China Mass: 49.7 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 8890 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L5. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 1 Apr 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 106:
Alatage Mountain 030 (AM 030) 41°41’19.9"N, 92°56’32.5"E Xinjiang, China Find: 1 May 2013 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L5) History: An expedition found 42 meteorites between 30 April and 1 May 2013 in a 2.7 × 1.4 km area 80 km east of Alatage Mountain. The expedition included Bingkui Miao, Yangting Lin, Shijie Li, Deqiu Dai, Wenjie Shen, Sen Hu, Lei Kesi, Peng Wang, and Zhipeng Xia. Physical characteristics: Total mass: 49.7 g (only 1 piece) no fusion crust, gray surface Petrography: The meteorite consists of olivine, orthopyroxene, and feldspar, associated with comparatively minor amounts of clinopyroxene, Fe-Ni, diopside, troilite, chromite and phosphate. In the section, the sizes of mineral are mostly <100 μm, and the sample shows a recrystallization texture. More than 40% of metal and sulfide are oxidized. Geochemistry: Minerals are uniform. Olivine: Fa21.8±0.7 (n=24); low-Ca pyroxene: Fs19.1±2.1Wo3.4±1.5 (n=20) Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L5); S5; W2 Specimens: 11 g sample and one thin section are deposited in GUT. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB106 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
GUT: College of Earth Sciences, Guilin University of Technology, 12 Jiangan Road, Guilin 541004, China (institutional address; updated 18 Oct 2012) |
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References: | Published in Gattacceca J., Bouvier A., Grossman J., Metzler K., and Uehara M. (2019) Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 106. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 54 in press.
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 346 approved meteorites from Xinjiang, China (plus 6 unapproved names) This is 1 of 516 approved meteorites from China (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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