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| Basic information | Name: Los Vientos 212 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: LoV 212 Observed fall: No Year found: 2017 Country: Chile Mass:  1430 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 355 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 19 Apr 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 107:
Los Vientos 212 (LoV 212) 24°38.765’S, 69°53.048’W Antofagasta, Chile Find: 2017 Feb 21 Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite, polymict) History: Found by driving on small hills while meteorite prospecting. Physical characteristics: Crusted stone. Cut surface reveals light grey interior with darker clasts to 5 mm. Petrography: (Jérôme Gattacceca, CEREGE) Brecciated igenous rocks with clasts of varied textures (variolitic, subophitic, granulitic) set in a clastic matrix of plagioclase and pyroxene with typical grain size 20 μm. Some pyroxene in the matrix are zoned, others not, others are exsolved. Other minerals: FeNi metal, troilite, chromite, ilmenite, silica polymorph. Geochemistry: Clastic matrix: low-Ca pyroxene Fs31.2±8.5 Wo1.2-8.2, Fe/Mn=34.2 (N=7), plagioclase An90.5Ab8.8Or0.7 (N=1). Granulitic clasts: low-Ca pyroxene Fs56.0±0.6Wo4.3±0.3, FeO/MnO=31.5, plagioclase An80.0Ab18.8Or1.3 (N=2). Variolitic clasts: low-Ca pyroxene Fs56.9Wo5.0±1.1, FeO/MnO=35.6 (N=3), plagioclase An89.0Ab10.1Or0.9 (N=2). Classification: eucrite-pmict Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with Sergey Vasiliev. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB107 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
CEREGE: CEREGE
BP 80
Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois
13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4
France, France (institutional address; updated 29 Oct 2018) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 107, MAPS 55, 460-462
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Statistics: This is 1 of 2042 approved meteorites from Antofagasta, Chile (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 2070 approved meteorites from Chile (plus 12 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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