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Elephant Moraine 96026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Elephant Moraine 96026 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: EET 96026 Observed fall: No Year found: 1996 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is the only approved meteorite classified as C4/5. Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (equilibrated) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Revised 30 May 2009: Changed to C4/5 from C4-5: Tonui et al. 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from AMN 21(1):
![]() Macroscopic Description: Kathleen McBride Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy Writeup from AMN 33(1):
EET
96026 original classification in AMN
21 no. 1, as an R chondrite, but several studies have brought information to
light that is inconsistent with that classification. Oxygen isotope data [1], as well as
magnetic susceptibility data [2] indicate this meteorite is not an R
chondrite, but a CV3 chondrite.
[1] Clayton R. N. and Mayeda T. K. 2003. Oxygen isotopes in carbonaceous chondrites (abstract). International Symposium on the Evolution of Solar System Materials: A New perspective from Antarctic Meteorites. National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, 13-14. [2] Rochette et al., 2008 Magnetic classification of stony meteorites: 2. Non-ordinary chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 43, 959–980. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB82 Table A1 Line 54: |
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References: | Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 21(1) (1998), JSC, Houston Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 33(1) (2010), JSC, Houston Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 43700 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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