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| Basic information | Name: Hami 003 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2013 Country: China Mass:  152 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11372 approved meteorites (plus 22 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 23 Nov 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 103:
Hami 003 42°2’46.2"N, 93°53’14.5"E Xinjiang, China Found: 4 May 2013 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5) History: On 4 May 2013, a team including Bingkui Miao, Yangting Lin, Shijie Li, Deqiu Dai, Wenjie Shen, Sen Hu, Lei Kesi,Peng Wang, Yongwang Lai, Zhipeng Xia found this meteorite ~60 km west of the Kumtag sand dune. Physical characteristics: total mass 152 g (only 1 piece), no fusion crust, with a gray surface Petrography: The sections exhibit some chondrules in a matrix of fine-grained silicates, metal and troilite. The meteorite shows a typical chondritic texture. The dominant silicate phases are olivine and pyroxene. The main opaque minerals are Fe-Ni metal (kamacite and taenite) and troilite (FeS). Accessory phases are chromite and apatite. Geochemistry: Minerals are uniform. Olivine: Fa18.1±0.6 (n=23); low-Ca pyroxene: Fs16.1±0.4Wo1.4±0.5 (n=19) Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5, S2, W1). Specimens: About 35 g and two thin sections are deposited in GUT. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB103 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
GUT: College of Earth Sciences, Guilin University of Technology, 12 Jiangan Road, Guilin 541004, China (institutional address; updated 18 Oct 2012) CAS: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China (institutional address; updated 16 Oct 2011) SYSU: Sun Yat-Sen University No. 135, Xingang Xi Road, Guangzhou, 510275, China (institutional address; updated 21 Apr 2017) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 103, MAPS 52, 1014, May 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12888/full
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Statistics: This is 1 of 322 approved meteorites from Xinjiang, China (plus 6 unapproved names) This is 1 of 489 approved meteorites from China (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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