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Maskelynite from
Bovedy meteorite, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:'Maskelynite' (not an IMA approved species)
Comments:Glass of anorthositic composition and/or general plagioclase composition is prominent in a number of aggregates.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Maskelynite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bovedy meteorite, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:941964
Long-form Identifier:1:3:941964:3
GUID (UUID V4):daa8b81a-300b-40f0-82c6-a57ab4bd23c8
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low-Ca pyroxene compositional distributions, kamacite Co contents, modal abundances of metallic Fe,Ni and...autumn of 1971, Mr. Roy Pfafffound a 1108 g stony meteorite near the middle west boundary of the NW~, Sec...Analyses of metallic Fe,Ni were also corrected for Co interference from the low-energy tail of the Kf3...composition, indicating that they represent a single meteorite. Brownell contains barred olivine, porphyritic...kamacite (0.80 wt. % Co; 6.7 wt. % Ni) and zoned taenite (29.4 wt. % Ni). The kamacite Co content is within
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GREAT CENTENARY BRITAIN AND OF MINERALOGICAL IRELAND, I976 JOSEPH V. SMITH Department of the Geophysical...THE Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland has a distinguished record in promoting research...' In spite of numerous historical records of meteorite falls, a century of scientific scepticism about...in meteorites. White inclusions of the Allende meteorite carry the melilite, spinel, diopside, and perovskite...with 27A1/24Mg in anorthite from the Allende meteorite (Lee et al., I977a , b); Hutcheon et al., I977;
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British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, UK Department of Geology, Kansas State University, Manhattan...Chertsey Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex TW16 7LN, UK Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts...University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6 A A, UK Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural...radius with increase in atomic number for a given co-ordination number. Despite the similarity in their...The wide variety of types and sizes of the cation co-ordination polyhedra in rock-forming minerals provides
 
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