Meteorite object
- Name
- Orgueil
Recovery
- Status
- fall
- Year
- 1864
- Mass
- 14000.0 $g$
Geolocation
- Body name
- Earth
- Place
- near Orgueil , Midi-Pyrénées , France
Coordinates
- System
- WGS84
- Position type
- point
- Coordinates
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Point Latitude Longitude Altitude #1 43.883° 1.383°
- Breccia
- No
- Category
- chondritic
- Group
- carbonaceous chondrite
- Class
- CI
- Chondrite petrologic type
- 1
- Comments
- classified as 2.4 by Rubin et al. (2007)
- Oxides
-
Formula $SiO_{2}$ $TiO_{2}$ $Al_{2}O_{3}$ $Cr_{2}O_{3}$ $FeO$ $MnO$ $MgO$ $CaO$ $Na_{2}O$ $K_{2}O$ $P_{2}O_{5}$ Mass fraction (%) 22.69 0.07 1.7 0.32 4.63 0.21 15.87 1.36 0.76 0.06 0.22 - Oxides comments
- H2O+=10.80; H2O-=6.10; FeS=9.08; C=2.80; other=8.64; total=98.86