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| Basic information | Name: Brunflo This is an official name for a relict meteorite. Relict meteorites are composed mostly of terrestrial minerals, but are thought to have once been meteorites. Note: evidence that this was once a meteorite may not have been critically evaluated. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1980 Country: Sweden | ||||||||||||||||
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Writeup |
Writeup from MB 59:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE BRUNFLO, SWEDEN, STONY METEORITE Name: BRUNFLO Place of find: Rodbrottet quarry, near Brunflo, Sweden. 63°07'N., 14°17'E. Date of find: Recognized 1980 Class and type: Stone. Chondrite (H-group?). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: Not known. Circumstances of find: Found, highly altered, in a block of Ordovician limestone (about 463 m.y. old). Chondrule structures are recognized but the only original mineral preserved is chromite, the composition of which suggests an H-group classification. Meteoritic silicates have been replaced by calcite, barite, a Cr-V-"phengite" and a cobaltite-group mineral. Source: P. Thorslund and F.E. Wickman, 1981. Middle Ordovician chondrite in fossiliferous limestone from Brunflo, central Sweden. Nature 289, 285. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 59, Meteoritics 16, 193-199 (1981)
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