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Jiddat al Harasis 479                             

Oman, Find, 2008

Basaltic shergottite

History:  This meteorite was found in the desert of Oman.

Physical characteristics: One individual greenish-gray stone weighing 553 g in total, incompletely covered with black fusion crust.

Petrography (Ivanova M.A., Lorenz C.A., Vernad) : The meteorite is coarse-grained rock of subophitic texture. The rock is composed of anhedral pigeonite and subhedral, elongated augite grains of 1-2 mm in size, and isotropic feldspar lathes 40-60 mm wide and up to 1.5 mm long, growing between pyroxene gains. The minor phases are olivine, ilmenite, silica, orthoclase, apatite, whitlockite, zircon, pyrrhotite and troilite.