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Isna

Name

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Structure Class

 Carbonaceous chondrites

Chemical Class

CO3.8

Country

Egypt

Year found

1970

Mass

23 kg

[Museum Collection]

(1) 1.21g

DISCOVERY OF THE ISNA, EGYPT, STONY METEORITE Name: ISNA Place of find: About 100 km SW of Isna, on the Nile River near Luxor, Egypt. 24°50'N, 31°40'E. Date of find: 1970 Class and type: Stone. Carbonaceous chondrite (C3, Ornans subtype). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 23 kg Circumstances of find: Found by Mohammad El Hinnawi of the Geological Survey of Egypt; main mass is preserved at the Geological Museum, Cairo. Sources: Letter from Dr. Darwish Mostafa Al-Far, Director, Geological Museum, Cairo, September 2, 1974. R. L. Methot, A. F. Noonan, E. Jarosewich, A. A. DeGasparis and D. M. Al-Far. 1975. Mineralogy, petrology and chemistry of the Isna (C3) meteorite.Meteoritics, 10, 121-131.

Moss

Name

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Structure Class

 Carbonaceous chondrites

Chemical Class

CO3.6 

Country

Norway

Year found

2006

Mass

3.76 kg

[Museum Collection]

(1) 5.940g   (2) 4.342g

History and physical characteristics: (G. Raade and K. Ødegaard, UOslo; M. Bilet, NorAS) At about 10:20 am on July 14, 2006, a bright fireball traveling SSE-NNW was witnessed by many people and a loud explosion and a rumbling sound was heard in the air above Moss and Rygge in south Norway, on the east side of the Oslofjord. Shortly after, a small meteorite was heard to land on an aluminum sheet and was recovered. Extensive searches in the area have resulted in the recovery of a total of 5 stones (Table 6).  Note that light rainfall occurred in the area on July 29, 30, and 31. Petrography: (J. Grossman, USGS; G. MacPherson, SI; L. Chizmadia, UHaw; A. Rubin, UCLA): Contains abundant small chondrules (most < 200 μm), small (

NWA12816

Name

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Structure Class

 Carbonaceous chondrites

Chemical Class

CO3

Country

(Northwest Africa)

Year found

2019

Mass

2.02 kg

[Museum Collection]

(1) 51.24g

History: The meteorite was purchased from a local meteorite dealer in Algeria. Physical characteristics: Brownish fragment without fusion crust. Petrography: The meteorite shows a dark brownish to black interior and is composed of abundant small chondrules, CAIs, and mineral fragments set into a fine-grained matrix. Chondrules are dominantly porphyritic type I with a mean diameter of about 0.2 mm. Some sulfides and FeNi metal are present in matrix and chondrules.

NWA15020

Name

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Structure Class

 Carbonaceous chondrites

Chemical Class

CO3

Country

(Northwest Africa)

Year found

2022

Mass

456 g

[Museum Collection]

(1) 16.59g

History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer in Morocco. Physical characteristics: Brownish rock without fusion crust. Petrography: The meteorite shows a dark brownish to reddish interior and is predominantly composed of abundant small chondrules, CAIs, and mineral fragments set into an abundant fine-grained matrix. Chondrules have a mean diameter of about 0.2 mm. Few chondrules are surrounded by fine-grained rims. Opaque phases are partly altered metal and troilite.

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