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Stannern
Stannern is a eucrite meteorite that fell in Moravia, in the present-day Czech Republic, on 22 May 1808. Eucrites are basaltic achondrites belonging to the HED clan and are generally interpreted as material from the crust of the asteroid Vesta. Stannern gives its name to the Stannern trend, a geochemical pattern among certain eucrites marked by relatively high incompatible-element and rare-earth-e...
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Kapoeta
Kapoeta is a howardite meteorite that fell in 1942 near Kapoeta, in the territory now belonging to South Sudan. Howardites are breccias made from mixed fragments of eucrite and diogenite material, recording impacts that excavated and recombined rocks from different levels of a differentiated asteroid's crust. Kapoeta is an extensively studied member of the HED meteorite clan, which is widely assoc...
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