GRV 051523: A new eucrite

• Main Authors: Tao, Liu, Yangting, Lin, Sen, Hu, Lu, Feng
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2009
• Subjects: Space; Grove Mountains; Advances in Polar Science; Polar Science
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2384/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2384/1/A0090208.pdf

Grove Mountains (GRV) 051523 is a newly identified eucrite, consisting mainly of coarse-grained pyroxene (62.9 vol %) and plagioclase (34.2 vol %), with less abundant opaque minerals (2.7 vol %), minor silica and tiny FeO-rich olivine (Fa75). Coarse-grained pyroxenes show exsolution of augite lamell...