SAINT-AUBIN

 

Saint-Aubin

Found France, 1968

Iron

Octahedrite, IIIAB

Specimen is a 2.10g slice, from the original mass, purchased by Alain Carion from the finder



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Basic information Name: Saint-Aubin This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1968
Country: France
Classification history:
  Meteoritical Bulletin, MB 87 (2003): Iron-ung
MetBase, v. 7.1 (2006): Iron-ung
Meteoritical Bulletin, MB 94 (2008): IIIAB

Recommended: Iron, IIIAB
Writeup Writeup from MB 87:
Saint-Aubin
Aube Champagne, France
Found 1968
Iron, octahedrite (ungrouped)
Five masses of total weight 472 kg were found by farmers while ploughing, within a strewn field a few miles across. Classification (E. Dransart and M. Baron, EMTT): kamacite bandwidth 0.4 mm; bulk composition Ni = 11.5 ± 1%, Co = 4 mg/g, P = 2 mg/g, Ir = 0.02 µg/g, Ga = 28 µg/g, Ge = 83 µg/g. The meteorite contains sarcopside and/or graftonite and needles of schreibersite up to 6 cm in length. It shows typical shock features (Neumann lines and shock-hatched kamacite). Specimens: type specimen 86 g MNHNP; 500 g EMTT; main mass with finders.
 

Writeup from MB 94:
The classification of Saint Aubin is in error. It is a high-Ni, high-Au, low-Ir member of the IIIAB group

 
Institutions and collections
  MNHNP: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, IMPMC-CP52, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France, France; Website (institutional address)
EMTT: Etudes Métallurgiques et de Traitement Thermique, Parc du Chater-Bât. B, 1, avenue du Chater, 69340 Francheville, France (institutional address)

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