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Meteorite Hills 00430

Basic information

Name: Meteorite Hills 00430
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: MET 00430
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass: 151.7 g

Classification
history:

NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	CV3
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:	AMN 25(2)	(2002)	CV3
Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 87	(2003)	CV3
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	CV3
Recommended:			CV3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 602 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

Writeup

Writeup from AMN 25(2):

Sample No.:	MET 00429; MET 00430
Location:	Meteorite Hills
Field No.:	13738; 13095
Dimensions (cm):	3.0x2.0x2.5 6.0x3.0x3.5
Weight (g):	30.485; 151.700
Meteorite Type:	CV3 Chondrites

Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride
25% of the exteriors have brown fusion crust exhibiting polygonal fractures. The interiors are a charcoal gray matrix with white, light gray and rust colored chondrules, 1-3 mm in diameter. The meteorites are moderately hard.

Thin Section (, 2) Description: Gretchen Benedix, Linda Welzenbach and Tim McCoy


MET 00429 Plane-Polarized Light	MET 00429 Cross-Polarized Light

MET 00430 Plane-Polarized Light	MET 00430 Cross-Polarized Light

The sections exhibit large chondrules (up to 3 mm) and CAIs in a dark matrix. Olivines range from Fa_0-28 and pyroxenes from Fs_0-3. The meteorites are CV3 chondrites.

Data from:
  MB87
  Table A1
  Line 22:

Mass (g):	151.7
Class:	CV3
Weathering grade:	B
Fayalite (mol%):	0-9
Ferrosilite (mol%):	0-2

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References:

Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 25(2) (2002), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003)

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Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photographs from AMN:
Photograph from unknown source	A photo is in the write-up above

Geography:

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Catalogue of Meteorites:	(79° 41'S, 155° 45'E)
Recommended::	(79° 41'S, 159° 45'E)

Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 80 km apart

Statistics:
This is 1 of 43700 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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