Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Allan Hills 88052

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Allan Hills 88052

Basic information

Name: Allan Hills 88052
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: ALH 88052
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1988
Country: Antarctica [Collected by EUROMET consortium]
Mass: 7 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 69	(1990)	CM
NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	CM2
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	CM2
Recommended:			CM2 [explanation]

This is 1 of 625 approved meteorites classified as CM2. [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 2), CM chondrites, and CM-CO clan chondrites

Data from:
  MB69
  Table 3
  Line 2:

Mass (g):	7.3
Class:	CM
Classifier:	F. Wlotzka et al., Meteoritics 24, 341 (1989)
Type spec location:	The thin sections are at the Max-Planck-Institut fir Chemie, Mainz, W-Germany
Comments:	Main Icefield

Institutions
and collections

Mainz: Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Abteilung Kosmochemie, Postfach 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany; Website (institutional address; updated 7 Nov 2015)

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References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 69, Meteoritics 25, 237-239 (1990)

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Geography:

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Catalogue of Meteorites:	(76° 43'S, 159° 20'E)
Recommended::	(76° 42' 21"S, 159° 9' 24"E)

Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 4.7 km apart

Statistics:
This is 1 of 44048 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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