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| Basic information | Name: Clarion This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1986 Country: Pacific Ocean Mass:  20 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 6415 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 72:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Clarion Pacific Ocean Found 1986 Stone. Ordinary chondrite (H4) Four fragments of about 20 g were recognized as meteoritic among rock samples collected from the ocean floor near the Clarion fault system. They are highly weathered and olivine and pyroxene are partly replaced by layered silicates, olivine Fa17.6, c.v. 1.5, analysis, N. N. Kononkova, Vernadsky-Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, classification and information, M. I. Petaev, Committee on Meteorites, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ul. M. Ulyanovoi 3, Moscow 117313, Russia. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 72, Meteoritics 27, 109-117 (1992)
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| Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Pacific Ocean | ||||||||||||||||
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