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Asuka 12077
Basic information Name: Asuka 12077
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: A 12077
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2012
Country: Antarctica [Collected jointly by NIPR (Japan)] and RBINS (Belgium)
Mass:help 185.4 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 107  (2018)  EL6
NIPR Newsletter:  MN 26  (2018)  EL6
Recommended:  EL6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 133 approved meteorites classified as EL6.   [show all]
Search for other: EL chondrites, Enstatite chondrites, Enstatite chondrites (type 4-7), and Enstatite-rich meteorites
Comments: Approved 18 Apr 2018
Data from:
  MB107
  Table 0
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Date:2012
Mass (g):185.43
Pieces:1
Class:EL6
Weathering grade:A
Ferrosilite (mol%):0.4 (0.1-0.9)
Classifier:A. Yamaguchi, M. Kimura, and N. Imae, NIPR; L. Pittarello, VUB/RBINS; V. Debaille, ULB; S. Goderis and P. Claeys, VUB
Type spec mass (g):185.43
Type spec location:NIPR
Main mass:NIPR
Comments:Si = 0.83 wt%; submitted by A. Yamaguchi
Institutions
   and collections		 NIPR: Antarctic Meteorite Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan; Website (institutional address; updated 9 Dec 2013)
RBINS: Marleen De Ceukelaire Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, rue Vautier 29 - 1000 Brussels, Belgium (institutional address; updated 15 Jul 2015)
ULB: Université libre de Bruxelles Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 - 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium (institutional address; updated 27 Sep 2018)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteorite newsletter : Japanese/Belgian collection of Antarctic meteorites, 26, 1-29 (2018 April)
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 107, MAPS 55, 460-462
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 44543 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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