Chondrules in the Bishunpur Meteorite (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Chondrules in the Bishunpur Meteorite

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Chondrules are visible as round objects in this image of a polished thin section made from the Bishunpur meteorite from India. The dark grains are iron-poor olivine crystals. This is a backscattered electron image taken with a scanning electron microscope.

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Steven Simon

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