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| Basic information | Name: Elephant Moraine 92027 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: EET 92027 Observed fall: No Year found: 1992 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass:  16.3 g | ||||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 218 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-br. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from AMN 17(1):
Sample No.: EET92027 Location: Elephant Moraine Dimensions (cm): 3.0 x 2.0 x 1.5 Weight (g): 16.3 Meteorite Type: Eucrite (brecciated)
Macroscopic Description: Carol Schwarz About 30% of the exterior of EET92027 is covered with shiny black fusion crust. The interior appears grayish in color and fine-grained. No inclusions are obvious. Weathering is minor.
Thin Section (,2) Description: Brian Mason The section shows a brecciated texture, with clasts up to 3 mm and pyroxene and plagioclase grains up to 0.5 mm in a comminuted groundmass of these minerals. Most of the clasts are fine-grained (average grain size 0.02 mm) aggregates of pyroxene and plagioclase. The pyroxene is pigeonite of fairly uniform composition, Wo11Fs44; plagioclase is An84-92; a silica polymorph, probably tridymite, is present in small amounts. The meteorite is a monomict eucrite (brecciated).
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| References: | Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 17(1) (1994), JSC, Houston Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 79, MAPS 31, A161-A174 (1996)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 43840 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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