Description
156 g endcut.
Sold with label/signed certificate of authenticity.
Dhofar 2093 (Dho 2093) 18°34.398’N, 54°8.889’E
Zufar, Oman
Find: 2014
Classification: HED achondrite (Eucrite)
History: Discovered by an anonymous finder on a desert trip 12 km SE of Dauka in 2014.
Physical characteristics: Four gray fragments, partly covered by black-browinish crust ranging from 301.3 to 30.5 g. Cut face shows light-gray matrix with white, black, and light-brown inclusions.
Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) Microscopic examination of a thin section shows holocrystalline hypidiomorphic texture and weak shock effect: undulatory extinction in plagioclase. Magnetic susceptibility log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 2.88.
Geochemistry: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart, P. Appel and B. Mader, Kiel) Pyroxene (pigeonite) Fs56.8±3.3Wo7.2±4.4, Fe/Mn 29.5 (n=13); Plagioclase An89.4±4.9Ab10.2±4.5 (n=20); SiO2; chromite CRAL 80, FFM 98 (n=1); ilmenite; kamacite Ni <0.1, Co 0.5 wt.% (n=2).
Classification: Achondrite (basaltic eucrite, monomict breccia)
Specimens: 20.0 g on deposit at Kiel, main mass anonymous
| State/Prov/County: | Zufar |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Latitude: | 18°34.398’N |
| Longitude: | 54°8.889’E |
| Mass (g): | 764 |
| Pieces: | 4 |
| Class: | Eucrite |
| Weathering grade: | low |
| Ferrosilite (mol%): | 56.8±3.3 (n=13) |
| Wollastonite (mol%): | 7.2±4.4 |
| Magnetic suscept.: | 2.88 |
| Classifier: | R. Bartoschewitz |
| Type spec mass (g): | 20.0 |
| Type spec location: | Kiel |
| Main mass: | Anonymous |
| Finder: | Anonymous |
| Comments: | Submitted by R. Bartoschewitz |
