[meteorite-list] Met Bulletin Update : Sahara 00293

From: Michael Mulgrew <mikestang_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:46:20 -0800
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Google will tell you who Ms. Fudge is:
https://nasa.asu.edu/view_bio/Crystylynda%20Fudge/2013-2014?destination=view_bio%2FCrystylynda+Fudge%2F2013-2014
http://sese.asu.edu/people/crystylynda-fudge

Michael in so. Cal.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:01 PM, J Sinclair via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> Sahara 00293
> That's a Labenne #
> Their 293rd recorded meteorite for the year 2000
> Consistent with their numbering system from 1997 onward.
>
> So many desert meteorites. So many ordinary chondrites with no data.
> So many could be paired. So confusing.
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Graham Ensor via Meteorite-list
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>> Strange...that really sounds like a made up name!!
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks via
>> Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Bulletin Watchers,
>>>
>>> There is one new approval. I find it curious. It is an old Sahara OC
>>> found by Mr. Labenne fifteen years ago (2000). Crystylynda Fudge was
>>> the classifier. I have never heard this name before. I am just curious
>>> why this meteorite suddenly appeared out of obscurity to be approved
>>> today.
>>>
>>> Best regards and Happy Huntings,
>>>
>>> MikeG
>>>
>>> Link : http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=61360
>>>
>>> Bulletin write-up :
>>>
>>> Sahara 00293
>>> (Sahara)
>>> Found: 2000
>>> Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6)
>>>
>>> History: Reportedly collected in the same location as Sahara 98222.
>>>
>>> Physical characteristics: Chondrules largely integrated into matrix,
>>> difficult to discern in cut section. Abundant shock-induced melt veins
>>> and pockets.
>>>
>>> Petrography: Fine-grained recrystallized plagioclase throughout
>>> matrix, some grains up to 200 ?m. Abundant metal sulfides and troilite
>>> with trace native Cu. Evidence of minor planar deformation features in
>>> olivine. Ubiquitous opaque shock melt veins and associated dark blue
>>> ringwoodite and green wadsleyite.
>>>
>>> Geochemistry: (C. Fudge, ASU) EPMA: Fa24.8?0.1 FeO/MnO: 48.8?1.6 n=11;
>>> low-Ca pyroxene Fs20.9?0.3Wo1.6?0.2 FeO/MnO: 28.6?1.1 n=12; high-Ca
>>> pyroxene Fs8.4?0.2Wo44.4?0.1 FeO/MnO: 20.8?1.2 n=2
>>>
>>> Classification: Ordinary chondrite L6, S6, W2
>>>
>>> Specimens: 27.05 g and one thin section at ASU
>>>
>>>
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