[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Met. Bull. Link to DaG 262



WBranchsb@aol.com schrieb:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have lost the URL to the Met. Bull. for DaG 262.  Would someone
> please tell
> me what the URL is?
>
> -Walter

Hello Walter, hello List!

DaG 262, a polymict anorthositic lunar highland breccia.

A single 513 g stone was found in the Sahara. Classification and
description (A. Bischoff and D. Weber, Mün): contains clasts up to 1 cm,
mainly anorthositic lithologies and crystalline impact melt breccias,
and glass fragments and spherules (partly devitrified) embedded in a
fine-grained, well-consolidated matrix; bulk plagioclase, An>95;
olivine, Fa20-71; low-Ca pyroxene, Fs26-63; has shock veins; contains
metal particles (5-26 wt% Ni), ilmenite, troilite, Ti-Cr-spinel;
meteorite is moderately weathered. See Bischoff and Weber (1997) for
additional information. Specimens: type specimen, several grams plus two
thin sections, Mün; main mass is with anonymous finder (Met.Bull. 81,
1997, A159).

BISCHOFF A. et al. (1997) Dar al Gani 262: The first lunar meteorite
from the Sahara (Meteoritics 32, 1997, A013).

The URL is: Met.Bull.81, 1997 July.

http://www.uark.edu/studorg/metsoc/metbull/bull81-f.htm

Best wishes, Bernd



References: