Yamato-82162: A new kind of CI carbonaceous chondrite found in Antarctica

• Main Authors: Tomeoka, Kazushige, Kojima, Hideyasu, Yanai, Keizo
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1989
• Subjects: Antarctic; The ''Y''; Yamato; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/4477/files/KJ00000036283.pdf; https://doi.org/10.15094/00004477; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/4477

P(論文) A petrographic and mineralogical study of the Yamato-82162 (Y-82162) meteorite shows that it may be the first CI carbonaceous chondrite that has ever been found in Antarctica. Y-82162 consists largely of fine-grained, phyllosilicaterich matrix and contains a large amount of Ni-bearing pyrrhoti...