Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Sahara 99362

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Sahara 99362

Basic information

Name: Sahara 99362
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1999
Country: (Sahara)
Mass: 800 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 106	(2018)	L5-melt breccia
Recommended:			L5-melt breccia [explanation]

This is 1 of 31 approved meteorites classified as L5-melt breccia. [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Melted chondrites, Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 11 Sep 2017

Writeup

Writeup from MB 106:

Sahara 99362

Sahara

Find: 1999

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L5, melt breccia)

Petrography: The studied thin section consists of about 70 vol% of fine-grained melt lithology and ~30% of large shock-darkened L-chondrite clasts. Relict chondrules are visible within these large shock-darkened clasts, indicating the occurrence of metamorphosed fragments of about type 5/6. The melt lithology basically consists of a very fine-grained intergrowth of different phases and also contains abundant small fragments of the target rock as well as isolated metal-sulfide assemblages (often rounded). The metal shows only weak effects of terrestrial weathering (W1).

Geochemistry: Olivine from the fragments is Fa_24.3±0.3(n=5) and low-Ca pyroxene is Fs_20.1±0.3Wo_2.5±1.1(n=4).

Data from:
  MB106
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Origin or pseudonym:	Desert
Date:	1999
Mass (g):	800.0
Pieces:	1
Class:	L5-melt breccia
Weathering grade:	W1
Fayalite (mol%):	24.3±0.3 (n=5)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	20.1±0.3 (n=4)
Wollastonite (mol%):	2.5±1.1 (n=4)
Classifier:	K. Klemm and A. Bischoff, IfP
Type spec mass (g):	28.2
Type spec location:	IfP
Main mass:	Labenne
Comments:	Submitted by Ebert S.

Institutions
and collections

IfP: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012)
Labenne: 23, rue de Esperance, 75013 Paris, France; Website (private address; updated 29 Aug 2012)

Catalogs:

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:

Coordinates:

Unknown.

Statistics:
This is 1 of 1037 approved meteorites from (Sahara) (plus 1 unapproved name)

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