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Elephant Moraine 83236 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Elephant Moraine 83236 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: EET 83236 Observed fall: No Year found: 1983 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 393 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-pmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from AMN 8(1):
Sample No.: EET83236 Location: Elephant Moraine Weight (g): 6.4 Field No.: 2761 Dimensions (cm): 2 x 2 x 1 Meteorite Type: Eucrite
Macroscopic Description: Roberta Score Shiny black fusion crust containing flow marks covers 60% of EET83236. The interior is bluish-gray with numerous white and dark gray clasts. Several oxidation halos were noted.
Thin Section (,2) Description: Jeremy Delaney A lightly brecciated medium-grained eucrite containing pyroxene in an ophitic to subradiate texture with generally lathy feldspar. The pyroxene is generally exsolved pigeonite with occasional "herring-bone" textures preserved. Both pyroxene and plagioclase have clouding in some crystals. Some pyroxene grains are quite clear but most are heavily clouded. Feldspar is often clouded in patches and has mottled extinction that in places is nearly isotropic. It has, therefore, been substantially shocked. Interstitial glassy silica minerals, troilite, chromite and ilmenite are also present. Pyroxene is En36Wo2.6 to En31Wo40 and feldspar is An89. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB76 Table 2 Line 1500: |
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References: | Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 8(1) (1985), JSC, Houston Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 76, Meteoritics 29, 100-143 (1994)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 43840 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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