Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Dhofar 1825

MetSoc Home Publications Contacts

Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 5 Jul 2022
Search for:	Search type:	Search limits:	Display:	Publication:
Names Text Places Classes Years	Contains Starts with Exact Sounds like	NonAntarctic Falls Non-NWAs Has strewnfield		What's new in the last:
Include past classifications in search		Has photo	Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:

Dhofar 1825

Basic information

Name: Dhofar 1825
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: Dho 1825
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: Oman
Mass: 98.7 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 103	(2014)	L3
Recommended:			L3 [explanation]

This is 1 of 787 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as L3. [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)

Comments:

Approved 22 Feb 2014

Writeup

Writeup from MB 103:

Dhofar 1825 (Dho 1825) 18°20’28.5’’N, 54°11’48.9’’E

Zufar, Oman

Found: 15 Mar 2011

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

Geochemistry: Cr₂O₃ in olivine: 0.04-0.2; 3.4 sub-type estimated according to Bunch et al. (2012)

Bibliography:

Bunch T.E., Wittke J.H., Irving A.J., and Kuehnere S.M. (2012) Estimation of petrologic subtypes of unequilibrated ordinary chondrites from systematics of chromium distribution in ferroan olivine (abstract). 43rd Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf., abstract 2193. (link)

Data from:
  MB103
  Table 0
  Line 0:

State/Prov/County:	Zufar
Date:	15 Mar 2011
Latitude:	18°20'28.5''N
Longitude:	54°11'48.9''E
Mass (g):	98.7
Pieces:	2
Class:	L3
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	W3
Fayalite (mol%):	22.9±12.6 (2.6-37.1, n=41)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	19±8.9 (2.7-36.2, n=45)
Classifier:	A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):	20.1
Type spec location:	MNB
Main mass:	anonymous
Comments:	chondrule mean diameter is about 0.7 mm; low metal content; submitted by Ansgar Greshake

Institutions
and collections

MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)

Catalogs:

References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 103, MAPS 52, 1014, May 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12888/full

Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:

Geography:

Oman

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(18° 20' 29"N, 54° 11' 49"E)

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)

Proximity search:

Direct link to this page