Meteorite from Mars
basaltic shergottite
NWA 1110
Martian Meteorite,
Shergottite,
Morocco
Purchased 2001 November in Northwest Africa
Martian meteorite (basaltic shergottite)
The weight of the total material purchased is 118g.
The place of recovery is believed to be in Morocco.
Classification and mineralogy (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS):
consists of olivine phenocrysts in a fine-grained groundmass of
complexly-zoned pigeonite and homogenous maskelynite, Ab46Or2, with
minor ilmenite, Ti-magnetite and pyrrhotite. Euhedral to subhedral
olivine has Mg-rich cores (Fa28, FeO/MnO == 50) and narrow Fe-rich
rims (Fa51, FeO/MnO == 53)
Classification and Mineralogy: (A. J. Irving1, T. E. Bunch2, J. H. Wittke2 and S. M. Kuehner1, 2004).

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