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Nickel-iron from
Kenna meteorite, Roosevelt County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:'Nickel-iron' (not an IMA approved species)
Comments:While kamacite appears to be the dominant form of metal, minute grains of another Ni-rich phase (Ni>27%) are found in the carbonaceous matrix
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Nickel-iron data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kenna meteorite, Roosevelt County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:897201
Long-form Identifier:1:3:897201:9
GUID (UUID V4):baf6af59-0ad5-4b44-a530-7831c7cd30cf
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Pergamon Press. Printed in Great Britain The Kenna ureilite: an ultramafic rock with evidence for igneous...Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, U.S.A. N. L. CARTER and J-C...of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11790, U.S.A. and GLENN Huss American Meteorite Laboratory...Abstract-The Kenna ureilite was found in February, 1972 near the town of Kenna, Roosevelt County, New Mexico...14.2 cm; it is the seventh known ureilite. The meteorite is composed of xenoblastic olivine (Fo,~.~), commonly
 
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