Meteorite Dunite Breccia MIL 03443: A Probable Crustal Cumulate Closely Related to Diogenites from the HED Parent Asteroid

• Main Author: Mittlefehldt, David W.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Geophysics; Miller Range; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20080010813

There are numerous types of differentiated meteorites, but most represent either the crusts or cores of their parent asteroids. Ureilites, olivine-pyroxene-graphite rocks, are exceptions; they are mantle restites [1]. Dunite is expected to be a common mantle lithology in differentiated asteroids. In...