MALOTAS (B) ? A HIDDEN EUCRITE FROM A POLYMICT FALL?

ROSZJAR J.; SAAVEDRA M.; RIEBE MY; BUSEMANN H,; YANG S.; HUMAYUN M.; TANAKA R.; MARIA EUGENIA VARELA

Glasgow

Congreso; 85th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society; 2022

NASA

We present the first petro-chemical and isotope data of the recently (re-) discovered Malotas (b)meteorite that belongs to the howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) clan of meteorites. This meteorite has been foundtogether with two other meteorites - the Malotas H5 and the newly classified Malotas (c) L5 ordinary chondritesshortly after a bright fireball observed in the night of June 22nd, 1931, in Argentina [1]. Therefore, Malotas (b) hasbeen classified as douptful meteorite fall. Until this study, Malotas (b) was a ?hidden? unidentified achondrite, exhibited at the Museo de Mineralogía y Geología Dr. Alfred Stelzner in Cordoba City, Argentina.