Khatyrka, a new CV3 find from the Koryak Mountains

• Main Authors: Glenn J. Macpherson, Christopher L. Andronicos, Luca Bindi, Vadim V. Distler, Michael P. Eddy, John M. Eiler, Yunbin Guan, Lincoln S. Hollister, Er Kostin, Valery Kryachko, William M. Steinhardt, Marina Yudovskaya, Paul J. Steinhardt
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Khatyrka; Chukotka; Chukotka Autonomous Okrug; Koryak; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.679.1962; http://wwwphy.princeton.edu/%7Esteinh/maps12170.pdf

Abstract–A new meteorite find, named Khatyrka, was recovered from eastern Siberia as a result of a search for naturally occurring quasicrystals. The meteorite occurs as clastic grains within postglacial clay-rich layers along the banks of a small stream in the Koryak Mountains, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of far eastern Russia. Some of the grains are clearly chondritic and contain Type IA porphyritic olivine chondrules enclosed in matrices that have the characteristic platy olivine texture, matrix olivine composition, and mineralogy (olivine, pentlandite, nickel-rich iron-nickel metal, nepheline, and calcic pyroxene [diopside-hedenbergite solid solution]) of oxidized-subgroup CV3 chondrites. A few grains are fine-grained spinel-rich calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions with mineral oxygen isotopic compositions again typical of such objects in CV3 chondrites. The chondritic and CAI