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PLNClassification: Achondrite, Ureilite S-low / W-mod.
Place/Time: 2017 in Morocco
Mass: 500g
History: The meteorite was purchased from a local meteorite dealer in Morocco.
Physical characteristics: Dark brownish fragment lacking any fusion crust.
Petrography: The meteorite shows a cumulate texture of up to 2.5 mm sized olivine and pigeonite grains. Olivine crystals appear to consists of smaller subgrains and pigeonite shows patchy compositional zoning. Olivine displays characterisitic reduced rims. The meteorite contains diamond and shows some foliation.
Geochemistry: reduced rims in olivine: Fa2.0-7.7; olivine contains 0.65±0.04 wt% Cr2O3 and 0.35±0.02 wt% CaO
Evil ureilite, one full drum of 150m of diamond wire to cut one slice. I hate waste wire that way. But inside its very beautifull matrix so I cut remaining main mass to last endpiece.
One side grinded on silica powders grid 200 (mat finish) and covered by paraloid.
