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Chug Chug 090
Basic information Name: Chug Chug 090
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2018
Country: Chile
Mass:help 1500 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 811 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 13 Feb 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Chug Chug 090        22°29.52’S, 69°11.22’W

Antofagasta, Chile

Find: 2018 Oct 21

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Chondrite with packed well-defined chondrules with average apparent diameter 850±390 µm (n=32). Opaque are metal and sulfides (almost entirely replaced by terrestrial weathering products).

Geochemistry: Olivine Fa25.1±2.0, range Fa22.0-26.9, Fa PMD 7.6%, Cr2O3 0.04±0.01 wt.% (n=7). Low-Ca pyroxene Fs16.8±5.9Wo1.0±1.1 (n=6).

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)

Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with K. Rybka

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Antofagasta
Date:2018 Oct 21
Latitude:22°29.52'S
Longitude:69°11.22'W
Mass (g):1500
Pieces:1
Class:L3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):25.1±2.0 (n=7)
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.8±5.9 (n=6)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.0±1.1
Magnetic suscept.:4.55
Classifier:J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):26.3
Type spec location:CEREGE
Main mass:Evgeny Tsys, Ksenia Rybka
Finder:Ksenia Rybka
Comments:work name KY26; submitted by Jérôme Gattacceca
Institutions
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CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 29 Oct 2018)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F.M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Chabot N.L., D'Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Komatsu M., Miao B., and Schrader D. (2022) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 1-4
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Chile
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (22° 29' 31"S, 69° 11' 13"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 2687 approved meteorites from Antofagasta, Chile (plus 9 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 2716 approved meteorites from Chile (plus 15 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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