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| Basic information | Name: Outer Recovery Icefields 18019 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: OUT 18019 Observed fall: No Year found: 2019 Country: Antarctica [Collected by the Lost Meteorites of Antarctica project, UK] Mass:  12.8 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11567 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 15 Dec 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 110:
Outer Recovery Icefields 18019 (OUT 18019) 81°28.72000’S, 17°59.18500’W Antarctica Find: 2019 Jan 11 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5) History: The meteorite was recovered as part of the Lost Meteorites of Antarctica project. which was funded in the UK by the Leverhulme Trust and supported by the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Manchester. These samples were collected as part of the project’s first field season in austral summer December 2018 - January 2019 by a two person field party consisting of Katherine Joy and Julie Baum. Found on blue ice surface. Altitude 1404 m. Physical characteristics: Mass: 12.82 g. Pieces: 1. Dimensions: 3 × 2 × 2 cm. A partial stone with 60% black fusion crust. brown exterior and brown interior. Petrography: Abundant well-defined chondrules (up to 1.5 mm in diameter) and coarse-grained matrix. Metal and sulfide throughout. some rimming chondrules. Plagioclase grains up to 0.2 mm. Geochemistry: Mineral compositions and geochemistry: All analyses by EPMA. Olivine Fa15.9±0.2 (N=8). Pyroxene Fs14.1±0.4Wo0.8±0.3 (N=8). Classification: H5 Specimens: 10.96 g type specimen (main mass) held at NHM. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB110 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
NHM: Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom; Website (institutional address; updated 9 Dec 2011) UMan: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M139PL, United Kingdom (institutional address; updated 30 Jan 2024) |
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| References: | Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F.M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Chabot N.L., D'Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Komatsu M., Miao B., and Schrader D. (2022) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 1-4
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Statistics: This is 1 of 44543 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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