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| Basic information | Name: Yamato 7301 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: Y-7301 Observed fall: No Year found: 1973 Country: Antarctica [Collected by National Institute of Polar Research, Japan] Mass:  650 g | ||||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 255 approved meteorites classified as H5/6. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 56:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE YAMATO 7301, ANTARCTICA, STONY METEORITE Name: YAMATO 7301 Place of find: Southern Yamato Mountains, Antarctica. 71°45'S., 35°00'E. Date of find: December 14, 1973. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H4). Olivine Fa20. Total iron = 25.13%. Number of individual specimens: 1, and eight very small fragments. Total weight: 650 g Circumstances of find: Found during the 1973-1974 season by the Japanese Antarctic Expedition on bare ice about 300 m from the margin of a moraine field, about 30 km south-west of the Yamato Mountains. Sources: K. Shiraishi, R. Naruse and K. Kusonoki, 1976. Collection of Yamato meteorites, Antarctica, in December, 1973. Antarctic Rec. 55, 49-69. See also: K. Yagi et al., 1978. Mineralogical and petrographical studies of the Yamato meteorites, Yamato -7301 (j), -7305 (k), -7308 (1) and -7303 (m) from Antarctica. Mem. Nat. Inst. Polar Res., Special Issue No. 8, 121-141, and K. Yagi et al., 1978. Petrology of Yamato meteorites (j), (k), (1), and (m). Meteoritics 13, 23-45. Note: Also known as Yamato (j). Yamato 7301 is the name approved by the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 43332 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Yamato (j) (From MetBase) | ||||||||||||||||||||