Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jul 2008
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Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 32, Issue 3, p. 293-305.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The mineralogy and bulk chemical compositions of three iron meteorites (Zhaoping, Xifu and Hami) recently found in China are reported here and are classified on the basis of their bulk chemical compositions. Zhaoping contains 93.4 mg/g Ni, 85.9 μg/g Ga, 418 μg/g Ge, 5.24 mg/g Co, 1.94 μg/g Ir, 0.774 μg/g W, and 1.62 μg/g Au and belongs to the low-Ni, low-Au subgroup of IAB. It is a coarse octahedrite and consists of kamacite, taenite, troilite, schreibersite and cohenite. The cohenite has entirely decomposed to graphite and low-Ni kamacite in our samples. Zhaoping contains some inclusions of Mn-free sarcopside which were rarely reported in IAB iron meteorites. Xifu has 74.1 mg/g Ni, 58.8gμg/g Ga, 150 μg/g Ge, and 0.913 μg/g W. Xifu is a member of group IIICD iron meteorite. Like most of IIICD irons, Xifu is a coarsest octahedrite with kamacite bandwidth larger than 3mm, and contains kamacite, taenite and schreibersite. Carbides and graphite are not found in the sample because of its being heterogeneous. Hami has 106 mg/g Ni, 5.36 mg/g Co and 0.922 μg/g Ir. We did not obtain the Ga and Ge contents in Hami because of their low concentrations and the limited precision of the INAA technique. Hami is an unclassified iron meteorite on the basis of the contents of other trace elements, structure and mineralogy. On mineralogy and structure, Hami resembles Rafruti, another unclassified iron meteorite.
Hsu Wei-Biao
Lin Su
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