Achondrite (Evolved)

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Dho 1180

Lunar Mingled BrecciaWork in Progress ... A rock that is a mechanical mixture of different [...]

Dho 182

EucriteMost common type of achondrite meteorite and a member of the HED group. Eucrites are [...]

Dho 908

Lunar Feldspathic BrecciaWork in Progress ... A rock that is a mechanical mixture of different [...]

Dho 081

Lunar Feldspathic Breccia (fragmental brecciaWork in Progress ... A rock that is a mechanical mixture [...]

Dho 732

AchondriteAn achondrite is a type of stony meteorite whose precursor was of chondritic origin and [...]

Dho 019

Martian ShergottiteIgneous stony meteorite with a Martian origin consisting mainly of plagioclase (or a shocked [...]

Dho 378

Martian Shergottite high-Al basaltBasalt is the most common extrusive igneous rock on the terrestrial planets. [...]

Dho 778

Diogenite, anomalous OrthopyroxeniteA rock composed primarily of orthopyroxene. Non-terrestrial orthopyoxenites include diogenites and a single [...]

Dho 007

Eucrite Polymict brecciaGeneral term for all breccias that are neither monomict nor dimict. Modified from [...]

DaG 647

Eucrite Monomict, recrystallized noncumulate (Main Group–Nuevo Laredo trend) Found Winter 1996/97 27° 10′ N., 16° [...]

DaG 476

Martian Shergottite olivine–orthopyroxene-phyric ∗ (depleted, permafric, reducedOxidation and reduction together are called redox (reduction and [...]

DaG 262

Lunar Feldspathic Breccia (regolith brecciaWork in Progress ... A rock that is a mechanical mixture [...]

Chassigny

Martian Chassignite Dunite click on photos for a magnified view Fell October 3, 1815 47° [...]

Camel Donga

Eucrite Polymict, noncumulate (Main Group–Nuevo Laredo trend) Found January 1984 30° 19′ S., 126° 37′ [...]

Angra dos Reis

Angrite Pyroxenite Plutonic/Metamorphic click on photos for a magnified view Fell January 20, 1869 22° [...]

Bilanga

DiogeniteDiogenites belong to the evolved achondrite HED group that also includes howardites and eucrites. They [...]

Almahata Sitta MS-MU-036

Enstatite AchondriteUsed in past as synonym for Aubrites. Present definition from the Meteoritical Bulletin states [...]

Agoult

Eucrite Monomict, noncumulate (Residual) Found March 2000 30° 33′ N., 4° 54′ W. An 82 [...]