Diogenites
Name
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Structure Class
HED achondrites
Chemical Class
Diogenite
Country
Year found
1999
Mass
25 kg
[Museum Collection]
(1) 48g (2) 41g
This is 1 of 514 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite. Search for specimens in the Smithsonian Institution collection (U.S.): Search for this meteorite in the Natural History Museum collection (U.K.): Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 84, MAPS 35, A199-A225 (2000)
Name
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Structure Class
HED achondrites
Chemical Class
Diogenite
Country
Year found
2002
Mass
2.77 kg
[Museum Collection]
(1) 2.54g
This is 1 of 514 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite. Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003)
Name
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Structure Class
HED achondrites
Chemical Class
Diogenite
Country
Year found
1931
Mass
12 kg
[Museum Collection]
(1) 7.75g
This is 1 of 514 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite. Search for specimens in the Smithsonian Institution collection (U.S.): Search for this meteorite in the Natural History Museum collection (U.K.): Search for this meteorite in the Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide database (Siena, Italy): Never published in the Meteoritical Bulletin
Name
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Structure Class
HED achondrites
Chemical Class
Diogenite
Country
Year found
2007
Mass
1023 g
[Museum Collection]
(1) 10.66g
This is 1 of 514 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite. Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 97, MAPS 45, 449-493 (2010)
Name
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Structure Class
HED achondrites
Chemical Class
Diogenite
Country
Year found
2008
Mass
4.91 kg
[Museum Collection]
(1) 51g
This is 1 of 514 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite. Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 95, MAPS 44, 429-462 (2009)
Name
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Structure Class
HED achondrites
Chemical Class
Diogenite-olivine
Country
Year found
2010
Mass
800 g
[Museum Collection]
(1) 12.26g
This is 1 of 19 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite-olivine. Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 99, April 2012, MAPS 47, E1-E52 (2012) [published online only]
Name
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Structure Class
HED achondrites
Chemical Class
Diogenite-pm
Country
Year found
2007
Mass
175 g
[Museum Collection]
(1) 18.7g (2) 13.7g (3) 11.3g (4) 2.7g
(5) 2.62g
History: Purchased by Twelker in 2007 September from a Moroccan dealer at the Denver Mineral Show. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Very fresh fragmental breccia consisting predominantly of angular diogenitic orthopyroxene grains (up to 2 mm across) plus
Name
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Structure Class
HED achondrites
Chemical Class
Diogenite-pm
Country
Year found
2017
Mass
784 g
[Museum Collection]
(1) 28.0g (2) 4.5g (3) 4.4g (4) 3.9g
History: Purchased by Eric Twelker in May 2017 from a Moroccan dealer. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Breccia composed of angular mineral grains and rare pyroxene-chromite symplectite clasts in a sparse matrix. The predominant mineral is low-Ca pyroxene (exhibiting undulose extinction) with subordinate olivine (of several different compositions), chromite, metal, fayalite, and minor (
Name
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Structure Class
HED achondrites
Chemical Class
Diogenite
Country
Year found
2022
Mass
670 g
[Museum Collection]
(1) 5.50g
History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer in Morocco. Physical characteristics: Light grayish rock without fusion crust. Petrography: The meteorite displays an unbrecciated grayish interior and is predominantly composed of up to 5 mm sized interlocking orthopyroxene (56 vol%) and calcic plagioclase (42 vol%) grains with minor Ti-bearing chromite and troilite. Few orthopyroxenes contain blebby augite exsolutions. Geochemistry: low-Ca pyroxene: Fs30.8±0.2Wo3.4±0.4 (Fs30.4-31.2Wo2.6-3.9, FeO/MnO=24-26, n=12); Ca-pyroxene: Fs15.9±0.4Wo39.7±0.4 (Fs15.5-16.6Wo39.1-40.1, FeO/MnO=19-20, n=6); calcic plagioclase: An96.1±0.3 (An96.0-96.5, n=11) Classification: Diogenite (noritic). Anomalous high plagioclase abundance (42 vol%).