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Los Vientos 383
Basic information Name: Los Vientos 383
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: LoV 383
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: Chile
Mass:help 230 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 109  (2020)  Howardite
Recommended:  Howardite    [explanation]

This is 1 of 451 approved meteorites classified as Howardite.   [show all]
Search for other: Achondrites, HED achondrites, and Howardites
Comments: Approved 14 Nov 2020
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Writeup from MB 109:

Los Vientos 383 (LoV 383)        24°41’S, 69°46’W

Antofagasta, Chile

Find: 2019 Nov 11

Classification: HED achondrite (Howardite)

Physical characteristics: Single light-gray stone with fusion crust. Cut surface show fine-grained light-gray interior.

Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Brecciated igneous rock with grain size ~400 µm. Main minerals are pyroxene (exsloved) and plagioclase (not maskelynite). This rock contains both eucrite material with subophitic texture, and diogenite material (more than 10 vol%). Accessory minerals: sulfide, chromite, ilmenite, kamacite, silica polymorph.

Geochemistry: Diogenitic low-Ca pyroxene Fs25.1±0.8Wo3.0±0.5 (n=4). Eucritic low-Ca pyroxene Fs35.7Wo5.5 (n=2), Fs59.2±1.2Wo5.3±1.5 (n=3). Ca-pyroxene Fs31.1Wo39.0 (n=1). Pyroxene overall FeO/MnO 31.4±2.1 (n=10). Plagioclase An91.0Ab8.8Or0.3 (n=2). Olivine Fa58.4, FeO/MnO = 45.3(n=2).

Classification: Achondrite (howardite). Likely paired with Los Vientos 383 that was found within 100 m.

Data from:
  MB109
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Antofagasta
Date:2019 Nov 11
Latitude:24°41'S
Longitude:69°46'W
Mass (g):230
Pieces:6
Class:Howardite
Weathering grade:low
Fayalite (mol%):58.4 (n=2)
Magnetic suscept.:3.69
Classifier:J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):20.5
Type spec location:CEREGE
Main mass:MMC
Finder:Rodrigo Martinez, Martina Kloubová
Comments:work name RM682; submitted by Jérôme Gattacceca
Institutions
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CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 2023)
MMC: Museo del Meteorito, Tocopilla 401, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. or Alonso de Ercilla 1250, La Herradura, Coquimbo, Chile, Chile; Website (institutional address; updated 11 Mar 2014)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)
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Geography:

Chile
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (24° 41'S, 69° 46'W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 3417 approved meteorites from Antofagasta, Chile (plus 12 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 3446 approved meteorites from Chile (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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