EET 92029,0 (USNM 6795)

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Expedition:

Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET)

Notes:

The specimen has a shape suggestive of a giant arrowhead, with cm-sized regmaglypts. Its dark brown color is due to a coating of terrestrial iron oxides. Small patches of fusion crust remain in surface depressions, and delicate streamers of late-stage, ablation-formed layered melt-crust are preserved at edges of adjoining surfaces. Occasional cm-long, narrow incisions several mm deep are present, possibly formed by ablation melting of schreibersite inclusions. A 52 g slice was removed 6.5 cm from the 'point of the specimen and perpendicular to the long axis. Butts of 357 g and 1954 g resulted. Suggestions of a Widmanstätten pattern (WP) were apparent on the cut surface.

Record Last Modified:

21 Sep 2023

Specimen Count:

1

USNM Number:

USNM 6795

Weight:

1954 g

Place:

Antarctica

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Record ID:

nmnhmineralsciences_1025444

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http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/377a309cb-ba14-4ab1-8d9c-a2afcc970b9a

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