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Troilite from
Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Troilite
Formula:FeS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Troilite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:860236
Long-form Identifier:1:3:860236:7
GUID (UUID V4):75b46baf-852f-4be3-b10d-1cd1d1c1bb20
Nearest other occurrences of Troilite
96.2km (59.8 miles) ā“˜Moama meteorite, Womboota, Cadell Co., New South Wales, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
in your own back yard Author: HUGH CARMAN Hill of Content Editor: TOM KAPITANY To my wife Ann, for...by Marvin Killgore of Arizona, in his demonstration of preparing the meteorite for presentation and...acknowledge the assistance given by the Museum of Victoria, Melbourne in providing meteorites and photographic...presentable manner. First published in Australia in 1995 by Hill of Content Publishing Company Pty Ltd 86...86 Bourke Street Melbourne 3000 Australia Ā© Copyright Hugh Carman 1995 Cover photograph: Rachael Kapitany
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MURCHISON METEORITE Eugene Jarosewich Smithsonian Institution Washington, D...Lost City and Dwaleni, bronzite chondrites; Nejo and Malakal, hypersthene chondrites; and Murchison, type...II carbonaceous chondrite. Two of these meteorites, Allende and Murchison, are ofrare types and again very...an abundant amount of material has been recovered to assure diversified studies of these meteorites. The...The Allende meteorite (King et aI., 1969; Clarke et aI., 1971) remains a source of interesting and revealing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral from the Murchison meteorite Chi Ma,* John r. BeCkett, and GeorGe r. rossMan Division of Geological...Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, U.S.A. aBstraCt...chromium sulfide mineral, discovered in the Murchison CM2 meteorite. The type material occurs as one subhedral...iron, schreibersite, and a Ca-,Al-rich glass, all of which are included in an isolated forsteritic olivine...composition determined by electron microprobe analysis of the type material is (wt%) Cr 53.32, S 42.87, V 1
Report (issue)
Mineral-Chemistry, and Composition of the Murchison (C2) Meteorite LOUIS H. FUCHS, EDWARD OLSEN, and...PUBLICATIONS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION The emphasis upon publications as a means of diffusing knowledge...knowledge was expressed by the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In his formal plan for the...publish a series of reports, giving an account of the new discoveries in science, and of the changes made...made from year to year in all branches of knowledge.ā€ This keynote of basic research has been adhered to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Coupled organic synthesis and mineral alteration on meteorite parent bodies Mitch SCHULTE1* and Everett SHOCK2...Moffett Field, California 94035, USA of Geological Sciences and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona...Abstractā€“The hypothesis that the soluble fraction of the organic compounds present in carbonaceous chondrite...chondrite meteorites was formed during aqueous alteration of the parent body was tested with masstransfer, reaction-path...these calculations, we start with likely compositions of the original parent body and asteroidal fluids that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Netherlands [61 IRON-NICKEL SULFIDES IN THE MURCHISON METEORITE AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO PHASE Q1 JOHN F...Scripps Institution o f Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093 (U.S.A.) Received...received January 2, 1979 Pentlandite from the Murchison meteorite survivesHF-HCIattack and dissolvesin HNO3...satisfying the operational definition of phase Q 1, the proposed major carrier of carbonaceous chondrite fission...However, identification of pentlandite with that phase is problematical in view of apparently differing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MSA Centennial Symposium An evolutionary system of mineralogy. Part I: Stellar mineralogy (>13 to 4...Minerals preserve records of the physical, chemical, and biological histories of their origins and subsequent...vivid narrative of the evolution of Earth and other worlds through billions of years of cosmic history...properties, including trace and minor elements, ratios of isotopes, solid and fluid inclusions, external morphologies...represent information that points to specific modes of formation and subsequent environmental historiesā€”information
Book (edition)
have taken him from the jungles of Africa to the plains of Australia, the moon, Mars and beyond. This...This Field Guide is a compilation of the many m eteorites Robert has been privileged to find or acquire...enjoy this 1oth Anniversary - Field Gulde of Meteorites. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tucson Iron Meteorite . . . . . . . . . . . . lmilac Pallasite . . ...Meteorites - Carbonaceous .. Murchison Meteorite Story . .... . . . Allende Meteorite Story . . .. .. . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Netherlands I._=._3 THERMOMAGNETIC ANALYSIS OF METEORITES, 2. C2 CHONDRITES D.E. WATSON U.S. GeologicalSurvey...University of Colorado/NOAA, Boulder, Colo. (USA) J.M. HERNDON and M.W. ROWE Department of Chemistry...Revised version received June 11, 1975 Samples of all eighteen of the known C2 chondrites have been analyzed...analyzed thermomagnetically. For eleven of these, initial Fe304 content is low (generally < 1%) and the J s...curves are similar to that of Fe304. The saturation moment after cooling is greater (up to 10 times) than
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Meteoritical Society, 1991. Printed in USA Determination of sulphur-bearing components in Cl and C2 carbonaceous...T. PILLINGER Planetary Sciences Unit, Department of Earth Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7...analysed by stepped combustion to determine the nature of their sulphur-bearing components. All samples show...observations, can be interpreted in terms of sulphur derived from a mixture of at least seven components (elemental...epsomite). Estimated concentrations of individual components show that most of the sulphur in the meteorites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
establish the source of these compounds, we determined the carbon isotopic compositions of individual n-alkanes...n-alkanes in meteorites of several different classes and terrestrial histories: Orgueil (CI1), Cold Bokkeveld...Bokkeveld (CM2), Murchison (CM2), Vigarano (CV3), Allende (CV3), Ornans (CO3), and Bishunpur (LL3). The efficiency...efficiency of supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) was exploited to provide extractable non-polar organic...spectrometry (GCā€“MS) and the carbon isotopic composition of individual molecules was determined using isotope
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE 33rd ANNUAL MEETING OCTOBER 27-30, 1970 GREENBELT, MAR YLAND SIMULTANEOUS...AND SEPARATED PHASES OF THE BRUDER HElM CHONDRITE Ralph O. Allen Jr., University of Virginia Kathaleen...Kathaleen Zweifel, Larry A. Haskin, University of Wisconsin Ursula B. Marvin, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory...separations of groups of elements was used to simultaneously measure the concentrations of 38 elements...elements in single small, < I g, samples. Six chips of the Bruderheim chondrite, varying in size from 0.36 to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SANTOLIQUIDO of Chemistry, University (Received 24 September 1971; and W. D. EHMANN of Kentucky, Lexington...been determined by alpha counting of the 210Po daughter activity of the Results are presented for thirty...difference in Bi abundances among the different groups of ordinary chondrites. Bismuth concentration decreases...separable into two groups on the basis of Bi data. INTRODUCTION pattern of Bi in meteorites has interested...1968) and LARIMER and ANDERS (1967) on the basis of s, two-component model. Additionally, LAUL et ~2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
solar nebula: Experimental evidence for the formation of sulfur-bearing organic molecules and sulfides JORDILLORCA1...metal particles and different gas mixtures consisting of H2:H2S (250:O.I), H2:CO (250:1), and H2:CO:H2S (250:l:O...473 K). Reaction of H2 + H2S with kamacite particles for 1000 h leads to the formation of pyrrhotite. Incorporation...Incorporation of CO into the gaseous reactant mixture results in the formation of both sulfide and carbide...range, respectively. Carbon deposition and production of organics are enhanced with respect to experiments
Book
PROCESSES VOLUME EDITOR Andrew M. Davis University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG...and Temperature 5.5 Biomass Burning: The Cycling of Gases and Particulates from the Biosphere to the...Geochemical Processes 7.4 Natural Weathering Rates of Silicate Minerals 7.9 Environmental Isotope Applications...Applications in Hydrologic Studies 9.2 The Recycling of Biogenic Material at the Sea Floor 9.8 Coal Formation...Formation and Geochemistry 10.9 The Geologic History of the Carbon Cycle 11.3 Heavy Metals in the Environment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113, Japan 'Present address: Dept. of Earth Sciences...Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657, Japan 'Present address: Onoda Cement Co...717 CO carbonaceous chondrite contain 5 to 80 vol% of nepheline, along with minor sodalite, and thus are...melilite is rare. Spinel contains variable amounts of Fe (0 to 57 mol% FeAl,O.) and is commonly zoned....the most susceptible to alteration of the primary phases, so most of it was probably already consumed to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1991. Printed in USA Organic compounds in the Murchison and Allende carbonaceous chondrites studied by... BECKER2 AND RIPUDAMAN MALHOTRA 3 'Department of Geology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305...February 1991) Abstract-Organic compounds in the Murchison (C2M) and Allende (CV3) carbonaceous chondrites...chondrites were analyzed by photoionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry; thermal (25-850 DC) and stimulated...were sufficient for sensitive quantitative analysis of aromatic compounds using thermal desorption. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metal grains of the LL3.1 chondrite Bishunpur, and are also commonly found in the metal of type 3 ordinary...spectroscopy shows that these inclusions consist of very poorly graphitized carbon, similar to carbon-rich...carbon-rich aggregates. The isotopic composition of C and N in individual inclusions were measured with an...ā¦13C ā«½ 19ā€°. In Khohar, carbon veins at the periphery of metal grains have relatively uniform ā¦13C around...interpret Bishunpur-type inclusions as the remains of carbonaceous matter that escaped oxidation during
Book
LAE cc as Pee eg ae Meteoritesā€”the fragments of space debris that survive their fall to Earthā€”have...complexities of star formation and can explain the earliest + events in the birth of the solar system...oceans, gases of the atmosphere, and other essential inaceatens for the evolution of life. This cunpschensie...meteorites. The authors trace the formation and breakup of planets, asteroids, and comets from which meteorites...their fall to Earth, their recovery, and the wealth of information they hold for eae The authors discuss
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hg and Pt-metals in meteorite carbon-rich residues: suggestions for possible host phase for Hg* S. JOVANOVICand...isolated from Allende and Murchison by acid demineralization for the determination of their Hg, Pt-metal, Cr...Experimental procedures used eliminated the possibility of exogenous and endogenous contaminant trace elements... Large enrichments of Hg and Pt-metals were found in Allende but not in Murchison residues. Hg-release...activation energy of 7-8 kcal.ā€˜mol. the same as that for Hg in troilite from an iron meteorite. This is further
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
constraints of their formation. Geochim. Cosmochim: Acta 52, 1389 - 1408. 1Iof Allan...- 82. 1Iof chondrules in Allende and ALHA-77003 carbonaceous...Leoville, and Vigarano: Evidence for nebular oxidation of CV3 constituents. Geochim: Cosmochim. Acta 54. 819-830...ANDWASSON J. T. (1981) The compositional classification of cbondrites-I. The carbonaceous chondrite groups....compositional classification of chondrites:V. The Karoonda (CK) group of carbonaceous chondrites. Geochim
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
USA. Abstracts DOES PRESOLAR SIC RETAIN A RECORD OF GRAIN PROCESSING IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM? c.M...cosmic ray exposure ages of eight presolar S i c size fractions from Murchison increase with size from...although the origin of these gases (from the He shell of AGB stars [ 11) is independent of the cosmogenic...demonstrates that the apparently correlated behavior of 22Ne, 4He, and cosmogenic 2lNe is understandable...the exposure ages reflect the typical lifetime of grains of different sizes in the ISM. It is assumed that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
~i6-7037/88~3.~ t .@I Murchison xenoliths EDWARD J. OLSENā€™*~,ANDREW M. DAVISā€™, IAN D. HUTCHEON~, ROBERT...ā€˜Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, U.S.A. ā€˜James Franck Institute, University of Chicago...60637, U.S.A. 3Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena...University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A. ā€˜Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago...Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A. ā€˜~~rnent of Geophysical Sciences, Unive~i~ of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
somewhat simplified overview of the subject of magnetism in meteorites. A glossary of magnetism terminology...terminology is included, followed by discussion of the various techniques used for magnetism studies in meteorites...meteorites. The generalized results from use of these techniques by workers in the field is described. A brief...critical analysis is offered. INTRODUCTION The science of meteoritics is unique, not only in its diversity...discipline, but in its diversity of disciplines as well. Anyone engaged in meteorite research soon becomes painfully
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org/ 10.1016/j.gca.2013.10.053 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for...version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting...Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA 4 Department of Earth and...Faculty of Science, Tohoku University Aramaki, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan 5 Department of Chemistry...Lafayette, IN, 47907-2038, USA 6 The University of Aizu, Ikki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima 965-8580
 
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