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| Basic information | Name: Rabt Sbayta 008 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2017 Country: Western Sahara Mass:  229 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 314 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (feldsp. breccia). [show all] Search for other: Lunar meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 11 Sep 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 106:
Rabt Sbayta 008 24.166°N, 14.507°W Rio de Oro, Western Sahara Find: 2016-Nov Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia) History: Purportedly found at a location NE of Bir Anzarane and purchased by Ben Hoefnagels in January 2017 from a dealer in Ouarzazate, Morocco. Physical characteristics: A single broken, pale beige-colored, roughly prismatic-shaped stone (229 g) with degraded fusion crust coating three sides. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Leucocratic, clast-rich breccia composed predominantly of anorthite, olivine, pigeonite and subcalcic augite with accessory ilmenite, chromite, troilite and kamacite. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa24.4-60.5, FeO/MnO = 84-89, N = 3), orthopyroxene (Fs20.6Wo3.2, FeO/MnO = 51), pigeonite (Fs21.29Wo7.7, FeO/MnO = 46), subcalcic augite (Fs21.0Wo23.6; Fs29.5Wo32.1; FeO/MnO = 41-54), plagioclase (An95.6-96.3Or0.2, N = 2). Classification: Lunar (feldspathic breccia). Although this lunar specimen was found in the same dense collection area as the Rabt Sbayta 002, Rabt Sbayta 004, Rabt Sbayta 005 and Rabt Sbayta 006 stones (but at a different location from Gataa Sfar), it differs from those stones in both petrologic and bulk compositional characteristics and thus is not paired with them (nor with Rabt Sbayta 007). Specimens: 24.3 g including a polished slice at UWB; remainder with Mr. B. Hoefnagels. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB106 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012) UWB: University of Washington, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 27 Jul 2012) |
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| References: | Published in Gattacceca J., Bouvier A., Grossman J., Metzler K., and Uehara M. (2019) Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 106. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 54 in press.
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Statistics: This is 1 of 47 approved meteorites from Rio de Oro, Western Sahara This is 1 of 265 approved meteorites from Western Sahara (plus 20 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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