Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Tata 001

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Tata 001

Basic information

Name: Tata 001
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: Morocco
Mass: 1.91 g

Classification
history:

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Lunar [explanation]

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Comments:

Approved 9 Dec 2020

Writeup

Writeup from MB 109:

Tata 001 29°44’42’’N, 7°41’59"W

South, Morocco

Find: 2019

Classification: Lunar meteorite

Physical characteristics: A small greyish fragment. Cut surface reveals a dark interior.

Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Brecciated igneous rock with fractured mineral clasts to 300 μm set in a glassy mesostasis of feldspathic composition. Clasts are Ca-pyroxene (some with exsolutions) and plagioclase. The mesostasis has abundant ~20 μm vesicles. FeNi metal is present as ~10 μm grains.

Geochemistry: Ca-pyroxene Fs_37.9±14.0Wo_15.4±8.6, FeO/MnO 59.3±11.8 (n=6). Plagioclase An_96.7Ab_3.1Or_0.2(n=2).

Classification: Achondrite (lunar, feldspathic breccia)

Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with J. Bassemon.

Data from:
  MB109
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State/Prov/County:	South
Date:	2019
Latitude:	29°44'42''N
Longitude:	7°41'59"W
Mass (g):	1.91
Pieces:	1
Class:	Lunar
Magnetic suscept.:	4.23
Classifier:	J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):	0.4
Type spec location:	CEREGE
Main mass:	J. Bassemon
Comments:	work name CM58; submitted by Jérôme Gattacceca

Institutions
and collections

CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 29 Oct 2018)

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References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)

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Geography:

Morocco

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(29° 44' 42"N, 7° 41' 59"W)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 34 approved meteorites from South, Morocco
This is 1 of 1967 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 37 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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