Locality type:

Meteorite Fall Location

Classification

Species:

Augite var: Fassaite

Formula:

(Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe²⁺,Al,Fe³⁺,Ti)[(Si,Al)₂O₆]

Confirmation

Validity:

Believed Valid

Data

Mineral Data:

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Locality Data:

Click here to view Bali meteorite, Lobaye River (Bali River), Nana-Mambéré, Central African Republic

Data Identifiers

Mindat Occurrence Record ID:

870026

Long-form Identifier:

1:3:870026:1

GUID (UUID V4):

0eb250a3-4ad2-4347-b9cb-9f0502f7d5be

References

Brearley, A. J. & Jones, R. H. (1998). Chondritic Meteorites. In: Planetary Materials (Papike, J. J., Editor): Chapter 3, 398 pages. Mineralogical Society of America: Washington, DC, USA. (1998)

Reference Search (possible matching items)

	*Stolper, Edward (1982) Crystallization sequences of Ca-Al-rich inclusions from Allende: An experimental study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 46 (11) 2159-2180 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(82)90192-2*	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	Type B Ca-Al-rich inclusions from the Allende meteorite is: spine1 (1550°C) --) melilite (14OO’C,Ak22)...(126O‘C) - Ti-Al-rich clinopyroxene (1230°C; “Ti-fassaite”). The melilite becomes increasingly akermanitic...first order with the condensation of solid Ti-rich fassaite in place of pure diopside at higher temperatures...the Ca-Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) in the Allende meteorite and in other carbonaceous chondrites are probably...al. (1975) described an inclusion from the Bali meteorite that appears similar to that of MacPherson
	Clayton, Robert N., Onuma, Naoki, Grossman, Lawrence, Mayeda, Toshiko K. (1977) Distribution of the pre-solar component in Allende and other carbonaceous chondrites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 34 (2) 209-224 doi:10.1016/0012-821x(77)90005-x	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	oxygen of the meteorite. The t 60 excess is distributed very heterogeneously within each meteorite [2]. It...carried out on ground-up pieces of the whole meteorite. The various density fractions then consist mostly...matrix, and a single Allende inclusion, all of the meteorite data points in Fig. 1 lie close to a single mixing...described for an inclusion ("chondrule") in the Bali meteorite [12]. Mineral separation was carried out in...isotopic compositions of C2, C3 and C4 meteorites Meteorite (class) Description * Murchison (C2) matrix

Fassaite from Bali meteorite, Lobaye River (Bali River), Nana-Mambéré, Central African Republic

Fassaite from
Bali meteorite, Lobaye River (Bali River), Nana-Mambéré, Central African Republic