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Elephant Moraine 96077

Basic information

Name: Elephant Moraine 96077
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: EET 96077
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1996
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass: 0.2 g

Classification
history:

Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:	AMN 21(2)	(1998)	EH3
Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 83	(1999)	EH3
NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	EH3
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	EH3
Recommended:			EH3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 140 approved meteorites classified as EH3. [show all]
Search for other: EH chondrites, Enstatite chondrites, Enstatite chondrites (type 3), and Enstatite-rich meteorites

Writeup

Writeup from AMN 21(2):

Sample No.:	EET96077
Location:	Elephant Moraine
Dimensions (cm):	0.5x0.5x0.4
Weight (g):	0.18
Meteorite Type:	EH3 Chondrite

Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
The exterior of this meteorite is smooth and brown. The interior is a rusty, dark matrix with small (<0.5 mm) rusty yellow chondrules visible.

Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy
The section consists of an aggregate of small chondrules (most less than 0.5 mm), chondrule fragments and pyroxene grains set in a highly-weathered matrix of abundant troilite, with minor niningerite, metal and schreibersite. Enstatite compositions are somewhat variable (Fs_0-6), with most being Fs_0-1. Metal contains ~2.5 wt. % Si. The meteorite is an enstatite chondrite, probably EH3.

Data from:
  MB83
  Table A1
  Line 12:

Origin or pseudonym:	Meteorite City
Mass (g):	0.2
Class:	EH3
Weathering grade:	C
Ferrosilite (mol%):	0-6

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References:

Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 21(2) (1998), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 83, MAPS 34, A169-A186 (1999)

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Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photographs from AMN:
Photograph from unknown source	A photo is in the write-up above
Photos from the Encyclopedia of Meteorites:
Dr Carlton Allen, JSC-KT, NASA

Geography:

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Catalogue of Meteorites:	(76° 11'S, 157° 10'E)
Recommended::	(76° 11'S, 157° 10'E)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 43856 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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