Zagadkowe znalezisko z elipsy spadku meteorytu Łowicz

• Authors: Szymon Kozłowski

Title variants

EN

A puzzling finding from the Łowicz meteorite strewnfield

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents the circumstances of finding and analyses of an unusual 35 g piece of iron-like meteor-wrong collected in the strewnfield of the Łowicz meteorite (mesosiderite). While both the outer appearance of the specimen and its internal etched section closely resemble that of meteorites, as it includes pseudo-figures and pseudo-Neumann lines, the X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) spectroscopy shows no signs of the nickel content in the iron-dominated alloy. This rules out the possibility of this specimen having outer space origin.

Keywords

EN

identification; mesosiderite; metal; meteor-wrong; meteorites; spectroscopy

Discipline

• GEOLOGY: GEOLOGY

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Meteorytowe
• Journal: Acta Societatis Metheoriticae Polonorum
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 14
• Pages: 93-99

Contributors

author

Szymon Kozłowski

• Uniwersytet Warszawski, Obserwatorium Astronomiczne

References

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• Document Type: article