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Dhofar 2037 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Dhofar 2037 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: Dho 2037 Observed fall: No Year found: 2009 Country: Oman Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 18 Dec 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 104:
Dhofar 2037 (Dho 2037) 18.753°N, 54.377°E Zufar, Oman Find: 2009 Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3) History: Found in 2009 by an anonymous prospector. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Separated granular chondrules (apparent diameter 2.4±1.9 mm) and amoeboid fine-grained CAI are set in a deep brown matrix (~40 vol.%). Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa0.3-59.1, N = 3), orthopyroxene (Fs0.7-1.7Wo1.2-0.9, N = 2), augite (Fs24.3Wo45.2), Al-Ti-diopside (Fs4.8Wo53.9, Al2O3 = 15.9 wt.%, TiO2 = 1.0 wt.%). Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3). Specimens: 20.1 g including one polished thin section at ROM; remainder with anonymous owner. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB104 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
ROM: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada (institutional address; updated 18 Oct 2011) UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/full
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Statistics: This is 1 of 2168 approved meteorites from Zufar, Oman (plus 22 unapproved names) This is 1 of 4002 approved meteorites from Oman (plus 434 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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