| MetSoc Home Publications Contacts |
|
||
|
||
| Smara | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic information | Name: Smara This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2000 Country: Western Sahara Mass:  12.87 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 350 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 85:
Smara Western Sahara Found 2000 April Achondrite (polymict eucrite) A 12.87 kg stone was found by a person prospecting for meteorites. Mineralogy and classification (J. Barrat, UAng; P. Gillet, ENSL): a breccia containing various types of clasts, including subophitic basalts, granular microgabbros, gabbros, and impact melt clasts, in a fine- to medium-grained matrix; impact melt clasts are numerous and up to 1 cm in diameter. Specimens: 27 g plus two thin sections, ENSL; main mass with anonymous finder. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
ENSL: Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, 46 allée d'Italie 69364 Lyon Cedex, France (institutional address; updated 27 Feb 2011) UAng: Université d'Angers, Faculté des Sciences, 2 bd Lavoisier, 49045 Angers Cedex, France (institutional address) |
||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catalogs: |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 85, MAPS 36, A293-A322 (2001)
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Photos: |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
Geography:
|
Statistics: This is 1 of 92 approved meteorites from Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara This is 1 of 224 approved meteorites from Western Sahara (plus 19 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Proximity search: | |||||||||||||||||||||||