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NWA 14360 – Nowy meteoryt z Nigru

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Karwowski Ł., Szopa K.

Acta Societatis Metheoriticae Polonorum

2022

vol. 13

47-59

The new meteorite was bought as one single stone in 2019 from a dealer in Niger by Tomasz Jakubowski. The meteorite has fusion crust. It contains chondrules of different types with dominance of barred olivine chondrules, with diameter to 1.5 mm. Px and Ol are 78.1 vol%. of the meteorite mass. Pl is up 11.8 vol%. Average fayalite content is 24.93. Metallic phases are 3.0 vol%. Troilite is up to 5.9 vol%. Spinel (Cr-spinel) is up to 0.9 vol%. Average content of the secondary Fe-rich minerals (e.g. hydroxides) is 0.4 vol%. Feldspar composition is: Ab80.2Or5.0An14.8. Mean content of Al2O3, MgO and TiO2 in chromium spinel is 6.70 wt%, 2.05 wt% and 2.02 wt%, respectively. Metal phases are kamacite and tetrataenite. The kamacite has a Ni content in the range 5.83–6.81 wt%, while the Co content is in the range 0.39 to 0.56 wt%. Tetrataenite is has Ni content from 49.68 to 50.46 wt%, and Co up to 0.05 wt%. High-Ca monoclinic pyroxene, similar to diopside, is very rare. Accessory minerals are: chlorapatite and merrylite. Base on chemistry and petrography, the meteorite is classified as ordinary chondrite (L5). The main mass, a 9190 g specimen, is in Krzysztof Socha private collection. Small fragments with the total mass 71 g are stored in Museum of Earth Sciences (catalogue no: WNoZ/Mt/110) at University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. 39 g was used for thin-section preparation and spectroscopic investigation (Mössbauer spectroscopy).

Metoda 4M – nowe zastosowanie spektroskopii mössbauerowskiej w klasyfikacji zrównoważonych chondrytów zwyczajnych

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Woźniak M., Karwowski Ł., Gałązka-Friedman J., Duda P., Jakubowska M., Bogusz P.

Acta Societatis Metheoriticae Polonorum

2020

vol. 11

125-140

The 4M method aims to determine the type of equilibrated ordinary chondrite only on the basis of the Mössbauer spectrum of the investigated meteorite. Mössbauer spectrum of non-weathered ordinary chondrite is comprised of four sub-spectra: two doublets and two sextets. One of the doublets consists of a signal from iron present in olivine and the other consists of a signal from iron present in pyroxene. Sextets on the other hand, contain signals from magnetically ordered iron. One sextet is related to the metallic phase (kamacite, taenite), whereas the second is related to troilite. A third of doublets, which emerges in weathered ordinary chondrites, is related to products of the oxidation of iron present in metallic phase. The spectral areas of olivine, pyroxenes, metallic phase and troilite, which were obtained from Mössbauer spectrum are proportional to the number of iron atoms present in relevant mineral phases. Some Mössbauer groups were inspired by this fact to construct different methods to determine the type (H, L, or LL) of investigated meteorites (Gałązka-Friedman et al. 2019, Hyp. Inter. 241(1)). However, these methods, based on subjective criteria, were only qualitative. Our group elaborated a quantitative method, which is based on objective criteria. We called it the "4M method" (where M are derived from meteorites, Mössbauer spectroscopy, multidimensional discriminant analysis (MDA), Mahalanobis distance) (Woźniak et al. 2019). This method was using only the Mössbauer experimental data, to which it applied advanced statistical methods. The base, which was created from Mössbauer data, consisted of three clusters H, L, LL. These clusters were constructed with sets of 4-dimensional vectors. The vectors are comprised of spectral areas of Mössbauer spectrum: ol (value proportional to iron present in olivine), pyr (value proportional to iron present in pyroxene), met (value proportional to iron present in metallic phase), tr (value proportional to iron present in troilite). To determine the type of investigated ordinary chondrite, its ol, pyr, met and tr values with average values of variables obtained for clusters H, L and LL need to be compared. The comparison can be performed with the use of MDA and Mahalanobis distance. Once Mahalanobis distance of the investigated meteoriteis is known, the level of similarity to three types of ordinary chondrites can be calculated. Examples of such calculations were performed for seven ordinary chondrites: Goronyo, Carancas, New Concord, NWA 7733, Leoncin, Sołtmany and Pułtusk. They were made with the use of the new base composed of 62 non-weathered ordinary chondrites. All results obtained with the 4M method yielded results consistent with traditional mineralogical methods.

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NWA 14360 – Nowy meteoryt z Nigru

Metoda 4M – nowe zastosowanie spektroskopii mössbauerowskiej w klasyfikacji zrównoważonych chondrytów zwyczajnych