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Taenite from
Vaca Muerta meteorite, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Taenite
Formula:(Fe,Ni)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Kamacite1 photo of Taenite associated with Kamacite at this locality.
Fayalite-Forsterite Series1 photo of Taenite associated with Fayalite-Forsterite Series at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Taenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Vaca Muerta meteorite, Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:841464
Long-form Identifier:1:3:841464:9
GUID (UUID V4):72fd4268-70f6-4075-8708-9ecf423d4a92
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
variable from meteorite to meteorite and sometimes also exhibit variations in the same meteorite. Uranium...motivation of this work was to identify in a given meteorite as many U-rich phases as possible which could...plutonium and/or determine the thermal history of the meteorite. The decay of 2”Pu (an extinct radionuclide with...probably plutonium) were fractionated during the meteorite formation. In the present study, we concentrated...and Storzer (1975) first suggested measuring meteorite cooling rates by taking advantage of the different
Catalog/List
Front Cover: Gibeon mask — an incomparable iron meteorite (see lot 49079, page 62) Above: Foreground —...— the largest complete slice of the Abee meteorite (see lot 49116, page 90) Background — close-up of immense...solar system. It has been hypothesized that a meteorite not only led to the demise of the dinosaurs (providing...amino acids have been discovered in an Australian meteorite. How rare are meteorites? The entire mass of all...iron meteorites? The amount of nickel in an iron meteorite determines the type of crystalline pattern that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microscopist, Gustav Tschermak, and the outstanding meteorite collection of that day, the Vienna collection...meteorites. Table 1 traces the development of meteorite mineralogy over the following seventy years. It...extracted sulfur with alcohol from the Cold Bokkeveld meteorite, and later investigators extracted it from other...Mnrronttos, Ur :ro 1955 Irormula Mineral Kamacite Taenite Copper Diamond Graphite Moissanite Cohenite *Schreibersite...weathering. In 1955, therefore, to specializein meteorite mineralogy might well have beenconsideredthe refugeol
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
diffusivity and conductivity at room temperature for 38 meteorite samples of 36 different meteorites including mostly... which are important in the scale of typical meteorite samples. The effect of porosity may be even more...the density between S-type asteroids and their meteorite analogs to differ, while some micro porosity,...densities of asteroids with those of their assumed meteorite analogs yields porosity estimates for asteroids...well below the grain density of their likely meteorite analogs (Britt et al. 2002). Assuming fractures
Report (issue)
Structural and compositional properties of iron meteorite groups ___________ The geochemical behavior of...ABBREVIATIONS The following abbreviations for the meteorite classes are used throughout the tables and elsewhere;...percent) ; all others (<0.01 percent). A list of meteorite minerals is provided, and a tabulation of elemental...meteorites Famac ite a-(Fe,Ni) (4-7 percent Ni) Taenite Y-(Fe,Ni) (30-60 percent Ni) Troilite FeS ...E Chondrites Symbol Kamacite Kamacite , taenite Taenite Olivine, nickel-iron Orthopyroxene , nickel-iron
Book
provide an introduction to meteorite science and a handbook on meteorite classification. Insofar as I...These chapters would have been useful chiefly to meteorite researchers looking for a quick summary of group...quantitative meteorite studies declined during 1970-1973 as a result of the diversion of meteorite researchers'...efforts to the study of lunar samples. The rate of meteorite research activity is now increasing as researchers...during the past decade regarding problems of meteorite origin and classification. A complete list would
Book
provide an introduction to meteorite science and a handbook on meteorite classification. Insofar as I...These chapters would have been useful chiefly to meteorite researchers looking for a quick summary of group...quantitative meteorite studies declined during 1970-1973 as a result of the diversion of meteorite researchers'...efforts to the study of lunar samples. The rate of meteorite research activity is now increasing as researchers...during the past decade regarding problems of meteorite origin and classification. A complete list would
Book (edition)
manganese and copper. a polished surface of an iron meteorite is etching reagent, a peculiar structure is...relief on the etched surface, are composed of taenite, another alloy containing from 14 to nearly 50...it ; is iiiterim-diatc between kamacite and taenite, and it is perhaps just a microcrystalline aggregate...(b) the arrangement of plates of kamacite and taenite parallel to the faces of an octahedron (octahedral...they were that they ; followed by kamacit«, taenite, and plessite, in that order. In the syssiderites
 
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