| Name: | Dhofar 1441 |
| Type: | Ungrouped Achondrite |
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| Remarks: | This is a very strange meteorite - not particularly beutiful in thin section, but very interesting... the matrix is dark and consists of areas of melt and lithic clasts.
As the meteoritical bulliten says "The meteorite is a breccia, consisting of rock and mineral clasts embedded in a well crystallized melt matrix. Lithic clasts are basalts, gabbros, norites, metamorphosed pyroxene-feldspar rocks, clastic breccias, melts and rare glasses. Major phases are pyroxene and feldspar. Some pyroxenes have fine exsolution lamellae. Silica, olivine, chromite, ilmenite, troilite and metal Fe-Ni are rare phases. The matrix is fine-grained aggregate of pyroxene and feldspar"
TKW = 268g. To view the Meteoritical Bulletin page for this
meteorite
click here
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$175.00
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