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Elephant Moraine 96012
Basic information Name: Elephant Moraine 96012
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: EET 96012
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1996
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 9.4 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 21(1)  (1998)  C2
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 82  (1998)  C2
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  C2
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  CM2
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 31(1)  (2008)  CM2
Recommended:  CM2    [explanation]

This is 1 of 615 approved meteorites classified as CM2.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 2), CM chondrites, and CM-CO clan chondrites
Data from:
  MB82
  Table A1
  Line 41:
Origin or pseudonym:Meteorite City
Mass (g):9.4
Class:C2
Weathering grade:Be
Comments:96005 pairing group
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References: Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 21(1) (1998), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (76° 11'S, 157° 10'E)
     Recommended::   (76° 11'S, 157° 10'E)

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     This is 1 of 43700 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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