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Basic information | Name: Catalina 003 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1999 Country: Chile Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 18 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IVB. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, IVB irons, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 18 Sep 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 101:
Catalina 003 25°12’16.82"S, 69°49’42.89"W Antofagasta, Chile Found: 1999 Classification: Iron meteorite (IVB) History: A mass of 3180 g was found by Luc Labenne on a gravel surface in 1999 near the mine named Toro, 70 km northeast of Taltal. Physical characteristics: The 250 × 110 × 35 mm mass has the shape of a wing with a 250 mm long sharp edge. The top is covered by sand-blasted pockmarks with small wide pits and sharp edges at the cusps that are characteristic of irons from the Atacama Desert. On the top, a few deeper depressions may reflect the weathering loss of opaque nodules. Petrography: Very fresh, unweathered ataxite. A small section (7 × 10 mm) had one small FeS/metal inclusion, which is very fine grained (<10 μm) and has an FeS/metal ratio far below the eutectic value. No other inclusions recognized. Sample may have heat-altered rim. Geochemistry: Composition: 7.60 mg/g Co, 166.1 mg/g Ni, 0.17 μg/g Ga, <50 μg/g Ge, 0.43 μg/g As, 27.6 μg/g Ir, and 0.070 μg/g Au. Based on the composition and structure, the iron belongs to group IVB. The nearest relative from Chile is Iquique but these are resolvable: the As, Ir and Au contents of Iquique are 0.39, 31.1 and 0.058, well outside 95% confidence limits on the data for Catalina 003. Classification: Iron (ataxite), IVB Specimens: 135 g type specimen, UCLA; main mass, Labenne. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB101 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) Labenne: 23, rue de Esperance, 75013 Paris, France; Website (private address; updated 29 Aug 2012) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 101, MAPS 50, 1661, September 2015
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Statistics: This is 1 of 2255 approved meteorites from Antofagasta, Chile (plus 6 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 2284 approved meteorites from Chile (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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