Pairing of meteorites found in Victoria Land, Antarctica

• Main Author: Edward R.D. Scott
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Geology, University of New Mexico 1984
• Subjects: Allan Hills; Victoria Land; Yamato; Antarc*; Antarctica; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1720; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00001720/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=1720&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

A review of published suggestions for pairing Victoria Land meteorites suggests that the difficulty of correctly identifying specimens from the same fall has been greatly underestimated. In 24 cases where types 4-6 ordinary chondrites have been paired by petrologists and subsequently analyzed for no...