Tiny Fragment of An Ordinary Antarctic Meteorite (IMAGE)

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Tiny Fragment of An Ordinary Antarctic Meteorite

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A tiny fragment of an ordinary chondrite (Antarctic meteorite), Yamato-86051, classified into H4, measured by the present Gandolfi X-ray diffraction method. Back scattered electron image (NIPR).

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Naoya Imae, NIPR

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