Name: Elephant Moraine 96293 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: EET 96293 Observed fall: No Year found: 1996 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 100.6 g
Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
This achondrite has a dull black fusion crusted exterior with a few shiny glassy patches. Moderate weathering is visible on exterior surface. The interior is steel gray in color with a crystalline texture. Some crystals are dark in color.
Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy
The section consists of an aggregate of large olivine grains up to 1 mm across with numerous areas of finer-grained (~200 m
m), equigranular olivine, pigeonite and augite with abundant 120°
triple junctions. Individual grains are rimmed by carbon-rich material containing traces of metal. Shock effects are numerous, including undulatory extinction, polysynthetic twinning and kink banding. Olivines have cores of Fa12-13, with rims reduced to Fa6. Pigeonites(Fs11,Wo5) and augites (Fs7, Wo37)are relatively homogeneous. The meteorite is a ureilite.