Official
name: Acfer 359
Date of find: November
15, 2002
Total mass: 67
g
# of fragments: 1
complete individual
Place: Acfer
(Algeria)
Meteoritical Bulletin n°88 (July 2004)
Classified by: ENS
Lyon - France
Type: H6
Weathering grade: W2
Shock stage: S3
Fa : 18.61% (range:
17.6-19.6%)
Fs%: 17.25% (range:
15.3-31.4%)
Remarks: ACFER
359 is an H6 chondrite. Olivine and pyroxene display planar fracture
and ondulotary extinction, but very rare mosaicism. Feldspar
is always well crystallized. This meteorite needs therefore to
be classified as shock stage 3. |
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on site picture: November
15, 2002
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