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Los Vientos 384 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Los Vientos 384 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: LoV 384 Observed fall: No Year found: 2019 Country: Chile Mass: 174 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 109:
Los Vientos 384 (LoV 384) 24°41’S, 69°46’W Antofagasta, Chile Find: 2019 Nov 12 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 (exsolved) 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 Fs25.9Wo3.1 (n=2). Eucritic low-Ca pyroxene Fs34.8Wo3.1 (n=1), Fs57.1±1.1Wo7.9±2.0 (n=3). Ca-pyroxene Fs30.1Wo39.4 (n=2). Pyroxene overall FeO/MnO 29.8±1.1 (n=8). Plagioclase An90.5Ab9.3Or0.1 (n=2). Chromite Cr# = 0.82 Classification: Achondrite (howardite). Likely paired with Los Vientos 383 that was found within 100 m. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB109 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
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: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 3440 approved meteorites from Antofagasta, Chile (plus 12 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 3469 approved meteorites from Chile (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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