Fezzou 002

Name: Fezzou 002
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2023
Country: Morocco
Mass: 12.37 kg

Recommended:  Angrite  
This is 1 of 62 approved meteorites classified as Angrite.    

Approved 14 Jan 2024

Fezzou 002        30.794°N, 4.861°W

Centre-South, Morocco

Find: 2023 Sep

Classification: Angrite

History: Found in September 2023 in eastern Morocco near the village of Lahfira at 30.794°N, 4.861°W and subsequently purchased from the finder by Mark Lyon.

Physical characteristics: A single broken stone in two pieces (11340 and 1028 g) with a thin coating of vesicular black fusion crust.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL) The specimen is an aggregate (mean grainsize ~350 µm) of interlocking anhedral grains exhibiting an allotriomorphic-granular texture. Composed predominantly of Al-Ti-augite (pink in thin section), Ca-bearing olivine, kirschsteinite and almost pure anorthite together with accessory hercynitic spinel (pleonaste), troilite and rare Fe metal. Blades or lamellae of kirschsteinite are present within some olivine grains. Some polycrystalline pyroxene-rich clusters and clusters of kirschsteinite+olivine up to ~3 mm in size are present. Vesicles are absent.

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