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| Basic information | Name: Contis-Plage This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2000 Country: France Mass:  44 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 10851 approved meteorites (plus 19 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 23 Aug 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 101:
Contis-Plage 44°05’N, 1°19’W Aquitaine, France Found: around 2000 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5) History: Found on a slightly vegetated dune not far from the beach during a holiday walk. Physical characteristics: Dark brown, wind-ablated stone lacking fusion crust. Some fractures contain sand grains and efflorescence of halite. Petrography: Well defined chondrules. Feldspar grain size rarely up to 50 μm. Opaque phases are metal, troilite (polycrystalline), chromite, ilmenite, graphite (inclusion in metal). The analyzed thin section contains a single chromite-plagioclase-chondrule (0.3 mm). Metal is largely altered to maghemite-magnetite and hydroxides, troilite shows only minor alteration. Geochemistry: Olivine has mean composition of Fa18.7, pyroxene Fs16.2Wo1.3. Classification: Ordinary chondrite, H5 S3 W3. Specimens: Type specimens: 8.98 g plus one polished thin section, NMBE; main mass, A. Preiss, Weinfelden, Switzerland. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB101 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
NMBE: Natural History Museum Bern
Bernastrasse 15
CH-3005 Bern
Switzerland, Switzerland; Website (institutional address; updated 2 Mar 2012) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 101, MAPS 50, 1661, September 2015
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Statistics: This is 1 of 8 approved meteorites from Aquitaine, France This is 1 of 77 approved meteorites from France (plus 12 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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