Parauapebas meteorite from Pará, Brazil, a “hammer” breccia chondrite

Abstract The Parauapebas meteorite, third official meteorite discovered in the Brazilian Amazon region, is a “hammer meteorite” which fell on December 9th, 2013, in the city of Parauapebas, Pará State, Brazil. Mineralogy is dominated by forsterite, enstatite, iron, troilite, and tetrataenite. Albite...

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Main Authors: Daniel Atencio, Dorília Cunha, André Luiz Ribeiro Moutinho, Maria Elizabeth Zucolotto, Amanda Araujo Tosi, Caio Vidaurre Nassif Villaça
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia 2020-08-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Geology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2317-48892020000300305&tlng=en