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Niningerite from
Almahata Sitta meteorite, River Nile, Sudan


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Niningerite
Formula:(Mg,Fe2+,Mn2+)S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Niningerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Almahata Sitta meteorite, River Nile, Sudan
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:859500
Long-form Identifier:1:3:859500:3
GUID (UUID V4):fd48a59d-bf1a-46e6-96bc-1c9766373024
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
10.1111/maps.13390 The first samples from Almahata Sitta showing contacts between ureilitic and chondritic...Department, University of Khartoum, Khartoum 11115, Sudan 5 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck...2019) Abstractā€“Almahata Sitta (AhS), an anomalous polymict ureilite, is the first meteorite observed to...TC3). However, correlating properties of the meteorite with those of the asteroid is not straightforward...isotope composition is unlike that of any known meteorite. The enclosed clasts and chondrules do 1 Ā© The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
groups have Cr in troilite above 2 wt%, Fe in niningerite or alabandite above 20 wt%, and lack abundant...sulfides are rare minerals and include, e.g., niningerite (MgS), alabandite (MnS), and oldhamite (CaS)...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...with [defined this study]: Feā‰„Mg,Mn [mole%]), niningerite ([Mg,Mn,Fe]S with: Mg ā‰„ Fe,Mn [mole%]), alabandite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abundance measured between different chondrite meteorite groups and the modern Earth challenges the interpretation...the ļ¬rst measurements on an observed meteorite fall Almahata Sitta containing pristine fragments of an...present the ļ¬rst measurements on an observed fall Almahata Sitta containing fragments of the EL3 subgroup, such...MS-177. The ļ¬reball of Almahata Sitta fall was captured on camera in northern Sudan on October 7th 2008...independent stable Nd isotope ratios for each meteorite to establish their signiļ¬cance with respect to
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the accretion and chemical differentiation of meteorite parent bodies provides some of the most direct...CAI formation postdated core formation in iron meteorite parent bodies by āˆ¼2ā€“3 Ma. Thermal modeling of...and, therefore, more than āˆ¼1 Ma later than iron meteorite parent bodies, but more than āˆ¼0.5 Ma earlier that...reserved. mal occurred episodically or that no meteorite parent bodies with intermediate accretion ages...those of differentiated and undifferentiated meteorite parent bodies, because they derive from bodies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurring iron silicide in the brecciated ureilite meteorite North Haig. Ureilite meteorites are carbon-bearing...The Almahata Sitta meteorites derived from the fall of ~4 m diameter asteroid 2008 TC3 in Sudan (Jenniskens...including FeSi and FeSi2, have been found in lunar meteorite Dhofar 280 (Anand et al., 2004; ro Nazarov et...Fe)8(Si,P)3 occur in the Horse Creek ungrouped iron meteorite (Buchwald 1975) and enstatite chondrites (Wasson...standards used were the IVB iron meteorite Hoba, the IIA iron meteorite North Chile (Filomena) and NIST
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carmel, (5) Yizreā€™el Valley of the Kishon, (6) Is River, (7) Luobusha mining district, (8) Dalihu, (9) Manitanyrd... (22) SpiÅ”-Gemer Ore Mountains, (23) ChusovaiĆ¢ river, Kamen Omut, (24) Krasnovishersky district, (25)...associated with alluvial deposits in the Kishon River area [114,115]. The so-called ā€˜Carmel Sapphireā€™...a location in the Yizreā€™el Valley of the Kishon River (Israel; 32ā—¦ 400 2000 N, 35ā—¦ 170 2200 E), close...ā‰¤1683ā€“1933 K. At the old platinum mining area at Is River (Nizhnyaya Tura, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia; 58ā—¦
Book
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crater center from a terrace deposit of the Enmyvaam River outside the crater rim. The spherules are translucent...isotopic variability in troilite within a same meteorite, our data are consistent with literature results:...from three new lithologies in the Tagish Lake meteorite [5] that have experienced less but varied degrees...()200ā€“400&), with large scatter within a single meteorite [5]. To avoid potential contamination by D-rich...Chinese contemporary limestones [3] show that the meteorite ļ¬‚ux was enhanced by two orders of magnitude following
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
INVESTIGATION OF THE METALLIC PHASES IN THE ALMAHATA SITTA METEORITE (FRAGMENT#051). Y. A. Abdu1, A. M. Gismelseed2... University of Khartoum, Sudan. Introduction: The Almahata Sitta meteorite fall was unique because asteroid...asteroid 2008 TC3, the parent body of the Almahata Sitta meteorites, was the first asteroid to be detected...in Sudan in 2008 [1]. In a previous work, we studied the whole-rock sample of the Almahata Sitta fragment...better characterize the metallic phases in the Almahata Sitta fragment#051. References: [1] Jenniskens P
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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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University, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan, 3Antarctic Meteorite Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research...to one of the most primitive meteorites. This meteorite contains highly abundance of presolar grains [1]...anticipated [6]. [6] observed that Fe,Ni metal in this meteorite was invariably and extensively altered to form...increasing metamorphism, reaching ~12,000ā€° in one meteorite. This enrichment is almost 4 times that in the...which can drive the knocked out fragments to meteorite orbits in about 1 million years [4]. The drift
 
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