A stony, carbonaceous chondrite, type III (CV3). Total known weight of 8.1 kg.; found as two individual masses (1.6 kg. found in 1961/62, and a second individual weighing 6.5 kg., reported in 1970). Plowed up from farm fields. The first segment found was placed under a fence until 1965. Comprised of a polymict breccia of carbonaceous chondrite and achondrite.
Ellipsoidal deformation of the chondrules caused by the heating of the meteorite to a temperature of 1000 to 1200 K and then application of a shear force that elongated one axis of the previously spheroidal chondrules (impact-produced shock).
Ref.: Fisenko, A.V. and L.F. Semenova (1997) On the Selection of Chondrites for Studying Interstellar Diamond. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences.
- 64th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting (2001) 5244.pdf
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2001/pdf/5244.pdf
- "Meteorites -- Their Record of Early Solar System History", J. T. Wasson, P. 164-165.
- Workshop on Parent-Body and Nebular Modification of Chondritic Materials 4038.pdf
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/chondrite/pdf/4038.pdf
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