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| Basic information | Name: Qued Mya 004 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2021 Country: Algeria Mass:  345 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 28 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (melt breccia). [show all] Search for other: Lunar meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 25 May 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 111:
Qued Mya 004 30.16758, 3.60573 Ghardaia, Algeria Find: January 2021 Classification: Lunar meteorite (melt breccia) History: Found approximately 80 km southeast of El Menia, Algeria in January 2021. Purchased by Jay Piatek from a meteorite dealer in 2021. Physical characteristics: Single stone with two visually distinct lithologies: 1) light tan-green colored fragmental breccia and 2) black vesicular melt-rock which forms sharp boundaries with and also intrudes the lighter lithology. Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) Electron microprobe analysis and reflected microscopy of a polished mount show this meteorite to be a polymict melt breccia with an anorthositic norite host rock consisting of fine-grained orthopyroxene, augite, and olivine poikilitically enclosed in plagioclase. Domains of vesicular melt rock and very fine-grained minerals and rock clasts bound and intrude the host rock. Minor phases chromite and silica were detected. Geochemistry: (A. Ross, UNM) Olivine Fa16.3±10.8, Fe/Mn=86±13, n=10; low-Ca pyroxene Fs22.6±6.9Wo3.5±1.0, Fe/Mn=57±5, n=9; augite Fs8.5±8.6Wo44.7±1.8, Fe/Mn=44±6, n=3; plagioclase An94.0±1.9Ab5.5±1.7, n=6. Classification: Lunar (polymict anorthositic norite melt breccia), nomenclature based on Stoeffler et al. (1980). The Mg# of olivine and An-content of plagioclase of this meteorite are consistent with that of the Apollo Lunar Mg-suite (Warren, 1993). Specimens: 20 g on deposit at UNM, Jay Piatek holds the main mass. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Data from: MB111 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
UNM: Institute of Meteoritics
MSC03 2050
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131-1126
USA, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 12 Feb 2015) |
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| References: | Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F. M., Grossman J. N., Schrader D. L., Chabot N. L., D’Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Joy K. H., Komatsu M. and Miao B. (2023) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 111. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58, 901–904. ?
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Statistics: This is 1 of 11 approved meteorites from Ghardaia, Algeria This is 1 of 1356 approved meteorites from Algeria (plus 30 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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