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| Basic information | Name: Rumuruti This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1934 Country: Kenya Mass:  67 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 4 approved meteorites classified as R3.8-6. [show all] Search for other: Rumuruti chondrites, Rumuruti chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 75:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Rumuruti Rift Valley, Kenya Fell 1934 January 28, 22:45 Chondrite. (Carlisle Lakes-like) A dazzling light was followed by loud explosions, several stones with a total weight a few pounds were collected over 3/4 miles. A stone of originally 67 g has been, since 1938, in the collection of the Museum fur Naturkunde, Humboldt Universitat, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany. Information, classification and analysis, light-dark structure with equilibrated clasts in an unequilibrated host, olivine Fa39 (PMD 2.4), orthopyroxene is unequilibrated and found only in the host, mean Fs about 26, sulfides are pyrrhotite and pentlandite (about 35% Ni), chromspinel rich in Ti (6%) and Fe3+, metal very rare and Ni-rich (67% Ni), H. Schulze, Museum fur Naturkunde (address as above) and J. Otto, Min.-petrogr. Institut der Universitat, Albertstrasse 23b, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany. See Schulze and Otto | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 75, Meteoritics 28, 692-703 (1993)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Rift Valley, Kenya This is 1 of 14 approved meteorites from Kenya (plus 1 unapproved name) | ||||||||||||||||
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