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Yamato-793274 lunar meteorite, Queen Fabiola Mts (Yamato Mts), Queen Maud Land (Dronning Maud Land), Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica

9 g stone. Regolith breccia composed of both feldspathic highlands rock fragments and mafic volcanic material.

Yamato 981031, a 186 g stone from the same fall.

Ref:
*Lindstrom M. M. Et al(1991): Geochemistry of Yamato-82192, -86032 and -793274 lunar meteorites. Proc. NIPR Symp. Antarct. Meteorites 4, 12-32. Nat. Inst. Polar Res., Tokyo.
*Arai T., Ishi T., and Otsuki M. (2002) A new lunar meteorite Yamato 981031: A possible link between two lunar meteorite source craters (abstract), In Antarctic Meteorites XXVII, 4-6, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo
*http://epsc.wustl.edu/admin/resources/meteorites/yamato79_98.html [Link dead. Jun 2011]

Mineral List

'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Barringerite
'Glass'


3 entries listed. 1 valid mineral.

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