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| Basic information | Name: Eltanin This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1981 Country: Pacific Ocean Mass:  1200 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 242 approved meteorites classified as Mesosiderite. [show all] Search for other: Mesosiderites, Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 66:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Eltanin SE Pacific Ocean Found September 1981 Stony-iron. Probably a mesosiderite. More than 25 small basaltic breccia fragments with a total mass of about 100 mg were found in Ir-rich sediments associated with impact melt in two USNS Eltanin deep-sea sediment piston cores (E 13-3 and E 13-4). Recovered specimens are maintained by F. T. Kyte. The cores are curated at the Antarctic Research Facility, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA. (F. T. Kyte, Inst. of Geophysics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA) | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 66, Meteoritics 23, 171-173 (1988)
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| Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Pacific Ocean | ||||||||||||||||
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