[meteorite-list] Meteorite Fragment Found in Morokweng Crater Impact Melt

[Paul]

Maier, W. D., M. A. G. Andreoli, I. McDonald, M. D. Higgins, A. J. Boyce, A. 
Shukolyukov, G. W. Lugmair, L. D. Ashwal, P. Graser, E. M. Ripley, and R. J. 
Hart, 2006, Discovery of a 25-cm asteroid clast in the giant Morokweng 
impact crater, South Africa. Nature. vol. 441, no. 4751, pp. 203-206.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v441/n7090/abs/nature04751.html

Fragment of an LL6 chondrite breccia found impoact melt of 70 km 
diameter crater in South Africa.

Information about the Morokweng  Impact Crater can be found at:

http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/images/morokweng.htm

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