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Weight:
0.934 g
Place:
Antarctica
Collection Date:
1979
Notes:
# NASA data for ALH 79017 Weathering: A Fracturing: A Pairing: ALH 76005 Fs: 28-53 mol % ²⁶Al: 97 ± 3 dpm/kg
This achondrite is mostly covered with a shiny black fusion crust that contains flow bands on all surfaces. The areas devoid of fusion crust are medium-gray in color and speckled with light and dark colored clasts which are <1 mm in diameter. Large clasts up to 0.5 cm in length were noted. The interior, which was exposed through chipping, is lighter gray in color than the exterior. Several clasts up to 1.2 cm were exposed. This meteorite looks similar to other eucrites in the 1977, 1978 and 1979 collection.
