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Keilite from
Almahata Sitta meteorite, River Nile, Sudan


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Keilite
Formula:(Fe2+,Mg)S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Keilite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Almahata Sitta meteorite, River Nile, Sudan
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:859499
Long-form Identifier:1:3:859499:0
GUID (UUID V4):caf84f28-8e58-4d77-9a45-7c37494bce39
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1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01108.x Asteroid 2008 TC3ā€”Almahata Sitta: A spectacular breccia containing many different...impacted Earth in northern Sudan on October 7, 2008. The meteorite named Almahata Sitta was classiļ¬ed as a polymict...pieces from different fragments collected in the Almahata Sitta strewn ļ¬eld were investigated and a large number...evidence that most, if not all belong to the Almahata Sitta meteorite fall. The fragments can roughly be subdivided...the lithological heterogeneity of the Almahata Sitta meteorite. Based on the ļ¬ndings presented in this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
www.elsevier.de/chemer Invited Review The Almahata Sitta polymict breccia and the late accretion of...October 2013 Accepted 29 January 2014 Keywords: Almahata Sitta Asteroid 2008 TC3 Polymict ureilite Polymict...its impact area: the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan, Africa. The asteroid had a preatmospheric diameter...recovery of more than 700 (monolithological) meteorite fragments with a total weight of āˆ¼10.5 kg. These...These meteorites were collectively named ā€œAlmahata Sittaā€, after the nearby train station 6, and initially
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many desert samples that are paired, from the Meteorite Bulletin Database: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metb...The 15 Antarctic samples were provided by the ā€œMeteorite Working Groupā€ of the Lunar and Planetary Science...(FeS), daubreelite (Cr2FeS4), oldhamite (CaS), keilite ([Fe,Mn,Mg]S with [defined this study]: Feā‰„Mg,Mn...increased enormously as a result of additional meteorite searches in hot deserts (e.g., Bischoff and Geiger...Geiger 1995) and the Almahata Sitta meteorite fall that delivered many different individual E chondrite
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a unique achondritic lithology of the Almahata Sitta meteorite (MS-MU-019 and MSMU-036) contain three...Remains of these bodies are poorly represented in meteorite collections, which points to eļ¬ƒcient accretion...graphite crystals, and the Mg-bearing Fe sulļ¬de keilite are characteristics of these rocks (Keil, 2007)...enstatite-rich lithologies. The ureilitic breccia Almahata Sitta, a remnant of the asteroid 2008 TC3 (Jenniskens...these have never been observed as individual meteorite falls and provide further insight into the evolution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manuscript Clues to the origin of metal in Almahata Sitta EL and EH chondrites and implications for primitive...Bischoff, A., Clues to the origin of metal in Almahata Sitta EL and EH chondrites and implications for primitive...pertain. Clues to the origin of metal in Almahata Sitta EL and EH chondrites and implications for primitive...siderophile elements, metal, impact melting, Almahata Sitta Abstract Enstatite (E) chondrites are a group...Nine samples of E chondrites from the recent Almahata Sitta fall [one EH3, two EL3/4, two EL6, two EL impact
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New Mexico where he built up one of the leading meteorite research groups while working on a wide variety...1990, where he has continued a wide variety of meteorite projects, notably the role of volcanism on asteroids...were unbelievably primitive. We were bathing in river water, there was no cleanliness, and the salts were...get back to meteorites. DS: But you did some meteorite research in East Germany? KK: Yes, I started in...students did. It was a risky proposition to go into meteorite research in those days. DS: You published your
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Impacts have been discussed as a heat source of meteorite parent bodies (e.g., RUBIN, 2004), through thermal...forsterite-anorthite at 1 atm, Fig. 7a). For a meteorite, having millimeter-sized grains, temperature heterogeneities...and Taylor, L. A. (2013) The Tissint Martian meteorite as evidence for the largest impact excavation...Collins, G. S. (2013) The early impact histories of meteorite parent bodies. Meteor. Planet. Sci. 48, 1894-1918...NaAlSi3O8-Hollandite in the Shocked Sixiangkou Meteorite. Science 287, 1633-1636. Giuliani, A., Kamenetsky
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METEORITE MINERALOGY Meteorites are fascinating cosmic visitors. Using accessible language, this book...book documents the history of mineralogy and meteorite research, summarizes the mineralogical characteristics...photographs of meteorite minerals, and with an accompanying online list of meteorite minerals, this book...book provides a useful resource for meteorite researchers, terrestrial mineralogists, cosmochemists,...students in these ļ¬elds. a l a n e . r u b i n is a meteorite researcher who recently retired from the University
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MOĢˆSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY OF OLIVINES FROM THE Dā€™ORBIGNY METEORITE Y. A. Abdu1, M. E. Varela2 and F. C. Hawthorne1...(d13C approximately 0 to +5&) lining vugs in the meteorite. There are also diļ¬€erences in magmatic carbon...of the Meteoritical Society: Abstracts 5022 METEORITE IMPACT CRATERS IN SOUTH AMERICA: A BRIEF REVIEW...discoveries. The following possible and conļ¬rmed meteorite impact structures have been reported for this...iron-nickel Apollo-type asteroid (meteorite type IA) and plenty of meteorite specimens survived the impact
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Science Tunis, Tunisia, 4 Meteorite Laboratory Lehmweg Gifhorn, Germany, 5 Meteorite Recon MĆ¼hlendamm Hamburg...calculation of meteorite flux is possible [4]. Following previous estimation of meteorite flux based on...structures in the alluvial fan, or the result of a meteorite shower. Their age, whatever the event is, is very...ANALYSIS (INAA) FOR ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION OF FRESH METEORITE FALL IN ORISSA, INDIA (2003). B. Adur, H.B. Mali...there were rains of the meteorite shower. Results: - A sample of the meteorite which fell in Purva Suniti
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CARBONACEOUS-CHONDRITE INCLUSIONS FROM THE KAPOETA METEORITE: EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF NANODIAMONDS WITH...Waterloo, ON, Canada. Kapoeta is an achondrite meteorite that belongs to the howardite group, which along...nanodiamonds in CC material from the Kapoeta meteorite by Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) and Raman...nanodiamonds and amorphous carbon found in this meteorite. References: [1] Zolensky M. E. et al. 1996. Meteoritics...State. Samples provided by the JSCā€™s Antarctic meteorite curatorial facility. 5214.pdf 76th Annual Meteoritical
 
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