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Yamato 980177
Basic information Name: Yamato 980177
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: Y-980177
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1998
Country: Antarctica [Collected by National Institute of Polar Research, Japan]
Mass:help 1.96 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 107  (2018)  CV3
NIPR Newsletter:  MN 26  (2018)  CV3
Recommended:  CV3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 622 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as CV3.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites
Comments: Approved 18 Apr 2018
Data from:
  MB107
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Date:1998
Mass (g):1.959
Pieces:1
Class:CV
Weathering grade:B
Fayalite (mol%):1.2 (0.4-3.7)
Ferrosilite (mol%):1.4 (0.6-3.7)
Classifier:A. Yamaguchi, M. Kimura, and N. Imae, NIPR; L. Pittarello, VUB/RBINS; V. Debaille, ULB; S. Goderis and P. Claeys, VUB
Type spec mass (g):1.959
Type spec location:NIPR
Main mass:NIPR
Comments:Submitted by A. Yamaguchi
Institutions
   and collections		 NIPR: Antarctic Meteorite Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan; Website (institutional address; updated 9 Dec 2013)
RBINS: Marleen De Ceukelaire Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, rue Vautier 29 - 1000 Brussels, Belgium (institutional address; updated 15 Jul 2015)
ULB: Université libre de Bruxelles Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 - 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium (institutional address; updated 27 Sep 2018)
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References: Published in Meteorite newsletter : Japanese/Belgian collection of Antarctic meteorites, 26, 1-29 (2018 April)
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 107, MAPS 55, 460-462
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 44048 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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