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Medanitos and Putinga, two South American meteorites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

R. F. Symes  and
R. Hutchison
R. F. Symes
Affiliation:
British Museum (Natural History), London, S.W. 7
R. Hutchison
Affiliation:
British Museum (Natural History), London, S.W. 7
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Summary

Petrographic descriptions, bulk chemistry, and partial analyses of several mineral phases in each stone are presented. Medanitos, previously classed as a eucrite, is now shown to be a howardite: Putinga is an equilibrated olivine-hypersthene chondrite.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 37 , Issue 290 , June 1970 , pp. 721 - 723
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1970

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References

Hey, (M. H.), 1966. Catalogue of Meteorites, pp. 298 and 396. London, British Museum (Natura History).Google Scholar