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Enstatite from
Murray meteorite, Calloway County, Kentucky, USA


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Enstatite
Formula:Mg2Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Enstatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Murray meteorite, Calloway County, Kentucky, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:927103
Long-form Identifier:1:3:927103:6
GUID (UUID V4):837d104a-0f50-4104-bc93-956db09910d4
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Magnesium, Calcium, and Nickel Distribution in the Murray Carbonaceous Chondrite” KURT F‘REDRIKSSON University...analysis of the Murray carbonaceous chondrite which fell September 30, 1950, 9 miles east of Murray, near Wildcat...Wildcat Creek, Kentucky. The object is a mechanical mixture of minerals formed under different conditions...agglomerates of high-temperature mineral debris from enstatite and ordinary chond r i t e s with some primitive...to the Murray carbonaceous chondrite, which fell on September 20, 1950, 9 miles east of Murray, near Wildcat
Book
obtain a panorama of the scope and substance of meteorite research. I endeavored to remedy this situation...not exhaustively discussed—the great upsurge in meteorite research along many new lines in recent years...and conservation of meteoritic material. Every meteorite is to some degree unique; and meteorites, unlike...I not been favored bv the curatorship of the meteorite collection of The American Museum of Natural History...Chicago Natural History Museum, the Nininger Meteorite Collection (Arizona State University, Tempe),
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
heated from 25°C upwards, (on Murray by HAYES and BLEMASN, 1968; on Murray and Orgucil by STUDIER et al...one hypersthene chondrite, one enstatite chondrite and one enstatite achondrite were investigated: several...below in greater detail. A selected fragment of meteorite (where possible a single piece weighing about...evolution of sulfide could be detected. Orgueil meteorite was first extracted with carbon disulfide to remove...gases isolated from meteorites in ppb (rig/g meteorite) Org. Jlur. Cold B. Mok. Mig. Erek. 217
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
doi: 10.1111/maps.12815 Remnants of altered meteorite in the Cretaceous-Paleogene clay boundary in Poland...bottom part of the host layer. The fragments of meteorite (2–6 mm in size) and meteoritic dust are metallic-gray...Geochemical and petrographic analyses of the meteorite from Lech owka reveal the presence of Ni-rich...not permit the chemical classification of the meteorite fragments. However, the recognized mineral inventory...texture may indicate that the meteorite remains were an iron meteorite. Until now, there are only a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1988) © Meteoritical Society, 1988. Printed in USA Carbon Stable Isotope Analyses of Individual Deep-Sea...handling blank. INTRODUCTION OVER ACENTURY AGO, Murray and Renard (1883) discovered microscopic magnetic...fine-grained matrix containing a few larger grains of enstatite, forsterite and Ni-bearing troilite. The particle...E. Brownlee (University of Washington, Seattle, USA). Descriptions of the particles are given in Table...carbon component (Cv) found in the Allende (CV3) meteorite has a Ol3C value of -17%0 (Swart et al., 1983)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonaceous chondrites (Orgueil, Cold Bokkeveld, Mighei, Murray, Felix, Lance and Warrenton), five non-carbonaceous...as a solvent, hy~oehloric acid to pretreat the meteorite and lack of definitive identification techniques...extracted some organic material from the Kaba meteorite and suggested that paraffinic hydrocarbons and...heterocyclic compounds were extracted from Orgueil meteorite and identiThe authors concluded that the organic...pyrimidine bases in water extracts of Mokoia and Murray meteorites respectively. DEGENS and BAJOR (1962)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona...Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1604, USA Received 3 October 2003; received in revised form 5 April...C. Of particular interest is the Tagish Lake meteorite because of its pristine nature and up to 5.8 wt...reported unusual nanospheres in the Tagish Lake meteorite [15]. These reports motivated us to reexamine...and Murray CM meteorites. Samples were prepared by gentle disaggregation of a piece of meteorite and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington University, Saint Louis, MO 63 130-4899. USA *California Institute of Technology, Geological and...Pasadena, CA 91125. USA ‘US Geological Survey, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225, USA (Received April I,...differed from that of Xe in air and from one meteorite to another (REYNOLDS, 1960, 1963; KRUMMENACHER...TURNER, 1964), was not even uniform within a given meteorite. Still further variations were observed when lunar...based on observed isotopic compositions in the meteorite and assumed compositions for the contributing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the lower molecular weight alkanes in a few meteorite samples (Orgueil and Mokoia) showed a predominance...NOONER and J. 0~6 CONTENTS Abstract Introduction Meteorite samples Methods Results-Carbonaceous chondrites...n-alkanes from only a few samples of only one meteorite. &TDERS (1962) questioned the conclusions of ~AUY...be used as proper standards for evaluating the meteorite data, (ii) the possibilities of contamination...volatile compounds in the Orgueil, Cold Bokkeveld, and Murray meteorites were in gross agreement with the ~st~bution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
regolith alteration on a level comparable to the Murray and Murchison meteorites but less than Nagoya,...sulfides, and rare NiFe metal or olivine with minor enstatite and sulfides. Interstitial material within chondrules...(green). Aggregates consist mostly of forsterite, enstatite or rarely Ca-rich pyroxene, spinach, NiFe metal...shows that some olivine in Allende, Murchison, and Murray also contain S (BUNCH and CHANG,1979). Moreover...P-sulfide has also been found in Murchison and Murray and is treated in detail elsewhere (BUNCHand CHANG
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2003 Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/03 $30.00 â«č .00 Pergamon...1016/S0016-7037(03)00261-8 Presolar spinel grains from the Murray and Murchison carbonaceous chondrites ERNST ZINNER...63130, USA 2 Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5630 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA (Received...carbonaceous meteorites, Murray and Murchison. Among 628 grains from Murray separate CF (mean diameter...presolar corundum grains, among 753 grains from Murray separate CG (mean diameter 0.45 ␟m) 9 presolar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
20015, USA 2 Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC 20015, USA 3 Materials...Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375–5320, USA * Corresponding author. E-mail: nliu@carnegiescience...of 400 nm in an acid residue of the Murchison meteorite, they found that cubic SiC (3C-SiC) was the dominant...extracted from a ~63 g sample of the Murchison CM2 meteorite by following the CsF-based isolation method described...and oxygen and ENAL20 (enstatite aluminum 20 wt%, an aluminum-bearing enstatite glass) for magnesium and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright 0 1996ksevier Scienk Ltd Printed in the USA. Allrights reserved L22izh Pergamon 0016-7037/94...California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-03 17, USA (Received Mu!: 10, 1993; accepted in revised,form...troilite separates of the Cape York III A iron meteorite. High resolution (20 step release) nitrogen isotopic...We discuss possible genetic links between iron meteorite groups based on nitrogen isotopic signatures in...understanding 6 15N variations among various meteorite groups. Replicate analyses of some meteorites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1994. Printed in USA. Alteration of calcium- and aluminium-rich inclusions in the Murray (CM2) carbonaceous...(CAIs) have been identified in the CM2 chondrite Murray, three of which contain alteration products. Two...common with the other types of altered CAIs in Murray, MCA-1 is inferred to have experienced its main...remaid. * It is the aim of this paper to describe Murray CAIs, with emphasis on their alteration products...within which alteration may have taken place. Most Murray CAIs have a secondary mineral assemblage that is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
distributions reflect various degree of alteration on the meteorite parent bodies and/or difference in original isotopic...943 © The Meteoritical Society, 2009. Printed in USA. 944 Y. Oba and H. Naraoka The IOM has been considered...organic compounds through aqueous alteration on meteorite parent bodies (Cronin and Chang 1993). For example...could be formed during hydrous activity on the meteorite parent bodies because most of the CM chondrites...indicator to evaluate thermal history on the meteorite parent bodies (Kitajima et al. 2002; Naraoka et
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Received May 5, 1991; revision accepted September...petrologic grade and degree of oxidation of the host meteorite on the abundance, physical properties and isotopic...NeE(H) and the inferred abundance of SiC in this meteorite [31]. It is possible that the anomalous Ne and...in the < 0.1 /zm fraction of the SiC in this meteorite, or that some of the finer grained SiC was lost...chondrites (A-C). SiC grains from the Indarch enstatite chondrite, in contrast, have anhedral forms with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1988) © Meteoritical Society, 1988. Printed in USA Abstracts of the 51st Meeting of the Meteoritical...comes from the recent cosmic-ray exposure ofthe meteorite. The rest, if cosmogenic, corresponds to a presolar...'Oxford University, UK. 'University of Chicago, USA. "Max-Planck-Institut fiir Chemie, FGR. The low temperature...329. Isotopically Light Carbon in the Allende Meteorite. R. D. Ash,' J. W. Arden,' M. M. Grady,' I. P... Chicago, IL 60637-1433 USA. 'Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA. Matrices of primitive chondrites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
material extracted or volatilized from various meteorite specimens are tabulated. Various crude but informative...elemental composition and general chemical nature of meteorite extracts arc tabulated and the infrared and ultraviolet...ultraviolet absorption spectra of meteorite extracts and crude fract.ions are described and discussed...origins of meteorite organic compounds and the relations of these origins to theories of meteorite origin...compounds Polymeric material Bacteria Origin of meteorite organic compounds Conclusion Acknowledgement References
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
small interstellar Sic grains from the Murchison meteorite PETER HOWE,’ JOHANNES GEISS,’ FRITZ BOHLER,’... University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637-1433, USA (Received September 9, 1992; accepted in revised... One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63 I304899, USA. 4059 P. Hoppe et al. 4060 samples, which in...applications to the chemistry and mineralogy of enstatite chondrites. Geochim. Cosmochim.Acta 43,1455-1466...ANDERSE. ( 1978) Noble gases in the Murchison meteorite: Possible relics of sprocess nucleosynthesis.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1995) o Meteoritical Society, 1995. Printed in USA Invited Review The distribution of aluminum-26 in...Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 20560, USA 2Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640...5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 3McDonnell Center for Space Sciences and the Physics...Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA (Received 1995 March 6; accepted in revisedform 1995...Inclusions 372 Aluminum-Rich Objects inOrdinary and Enstatite Chondrites 373 Interstellar Dust Grains . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
68 17 16 Enstatite [(Mg,Fe)SiO3] AGB enstatite high O/ O 62,69 17 16 18 16 SN-II enstatite normal O/...high 17O/16O; probably a post-stellar shocked enstatite grain 73 17 16 Amorphous silicate AGB amorphous...well as the possible transformation of MgSiO3 enstatite to the high-pressure bridgmanite polymorph (Vollmer...Fe-rich grains, extracted from the Murchison meteorite, contain 0 to 24 atom % Ni. SN-II taenite: Taenite...inclusions in SN-II graphite from the Murchison meteorite (Croat et al. 2003). The majority of grains have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A19-Al80 (6 Meteoritical Society. 2000. Printed in USA. A19 (2000) Abstracts DHOFAR 007 AND NORTHWEST...(Dhofar 007) and noncumulated (NWA 011). Results: A meteorite shower, 37 pieces weighing a total of 21,270 g...REE pattern supports a cumulate type of this meteorite also. At the other side the data of NWA 011 are...REE pattern supports a noncumulate type of this meteorite. Thus, these two meteorites belong to different...Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771,USA (xr2aa@Iepvax.gsfc.nasa.gov), 2Department of Chemistry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
supported by NSF grant EAR 76-01146. THE SHAW METEORITE: EVIDENCE FOR AN IGNEOUS ORIGIN J.L. Berkley...Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058 The Shaw meteorite has Lgroup chondritic bulk chemistry and mineralogy...recrystallization, support an igneous origin for the Shaw meteorite. Data are presently insufficient to determine...million years in one fragment of the Dhajala meteorite have been measured. The variation of 54Mn and...indicate that the preatmospheric size of the meteorite was at least about a ton. The activity due to
Book (volume)
Appendices, References PUBLISH ED FOR THE CENTER FOR METEORITE STUDIES, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY BY THE UNIVERSITY...Poems, London,l803 PREFACE The Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to have the opportunity to...work. As a part of his travels the Center for Meteorite Studies is proud to acknowledge the year he spent...teaching about the meteorites in the Nininger Meteorite Collection. This set of books is the most comprehensive... Foremost certainly as far as the Center for Meteorite Studies is concerned is Herbert G. Fales whose
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University, Cambridge, MA, USA Karl K. Turekian Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA VOLUME 1 METEORITES AND...Andrew M. Davis University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN...OX5 1GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA First edition 2003 Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd...Karl K. Turekian, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA This Obituary was first published in Eos, Vol. 93...it, it was just at this time that the Allende meteorite fell and the minerals contained within the so-called
 
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