The Ruhobobo, Rwanda meteorite - A new L6 chondrite

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Mar 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981metic..16....1k&link_type=abstract

Meteoritics, vol. 16, Mar. 31, 1981, p. 1-7.

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Chondrites, Meteoritic Composition, Minerals, Petrography, Chondrule, Chromites, Crystallinity, Histograms, Kamacite, Metals, Olivine, Pyroxenes, Troilite, Meteorites, Ruhobobo Meteorite, L6 Chondrites, Texture, Analysis, Data, Characteristics, Petrography, Mineralogy, Composition, Classification, Physical Properties, Photographs, Electron Microprobe

Scientific paper

Ruhobobo is a new meteorite which fell in Rwanda, Africa, in 1976.
Olivine (Fa 23.4), opx (Fs 19.7, Wo 1.4), cpx (Fs 7.5, Wo 44.0),
plagioclase (An 11.7, Or 5.6), chromite, 'whitlockite', kamacite,
taenite and troilite were found and analyzed. Based on these analyses
and on microscopic observation, Ruhobobo is an unshocked L6 chondrite.

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