The Yamato 980459 olivine-phyric shergottite consortium

• Main Author: Misawa, Keiji
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 2004
• Subjects: shergottites; Martian meteorites; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Yamato; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/6039/files/KJ00002351346.pdf; https://doi.org/10.15094/00006039; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/6039

P(論文) Among 4100 meteorite samples found around the Yamato Mountain area during the field season of 1998-1999, Yamato (Y) 980459, weight of 82g, is identified as a new shergottite. In ordered to improve our knowledge of the shergottite parent body, possibly Mars, a coordinated consortium study of th...