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Bitburg—a group-IB iron meteorite with silicate inclusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

E. Rambaldi
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut fiir Chemie (Otto-Hahn-Institut), 65 Mainz, Germany
E. Jagoutz
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut fiir Chemie (Otto-Hahn-Institut), 65 Mainz, Germany
J. T. Wasson
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut fiir Chemie (Otto-Hahn-Institut), 65 Mainz, Germany

Summary

Chemical and mineralogical investigations show that the Bitburg meteorite is not a pallasite, but a group-IB iron meteorite. Like other members of this group it contains chondritic silicates.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1974

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Footnotes

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Present address: Department of Chemistry and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

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