Iron Meteorites from Antarctica: More Specimens, Still 40% Ungrouped

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Jan 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000lpico.997...76w&link_type=abstract

Workshop on Extraterrestrial Materials from Cold and Hot Deserts, p. 76

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Iron Meteorites, Antarctic Regions, Neutron Activation Analysis, Stony-Iron Meteorites, Composition (Property)

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Clarke (1986) was the first to recognize that ungrouped irons are more common in Antarctica than in the regions where most irons have been collected; his conclusion was based on the first 21 irons collected in Antarctica. Wasson et al. (1989) reported compositional data for 24 Antarctic irons and reported that 8 were ungrouped; the ungrouped fraction of 0.33 was found to be about twice that (0.153) observed in irons from the remainder of the world. Wasson (1990) reported data for 7 additional Antarctic irons, and reported that 12 of 31 were ungrouped, a fraction of 0.39. In Table 1 I summarize the data obtained to date on independent Antarctic iron meteorites by our UCLA neutron-activation laboratory. With about 5 exceptions, the listed values are the means of duplicate determinations. We have now analyzed 40 independent iron meteorites; in Table 2 I list 8 other irons that proved to be paired with meteorites listed in Table 1. Because of the close relationship between pallasites and iron meteorites, in Table 3 I also list our data for two Antarctic pallasites that were studied at UCLA. Our new results confirm the previously reached conclusion about the abundance of ungrouped irons. In fact, the ungrouped fraction has increased slightly; of the 40 irons 16 are ungrouped, a fraction of 0.40. The two meteorites with pallasite structures are both small (approx. equals 50 g); one is ungrouped, the other a high-Ir anomalous member of the main-group pallasites (PMG).

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