Buseckite (IMA 2011-070), (Fe,Zn,Mn)S, is the Fe-dominant analog of wurtzite, a new member of the wurtzite group discovered in Zakłodzie, and an ungrouped enstatite-rich achondrite. The type material occurs as single-crystal grains (4–20 μm in size) in contact with two or more of enstatite, plagioclase, troilite, tridymite, quartz, and sinoite. Low-Ni iron, martensitic iron, schreibersite, keil...

[1] We present the analysis of 205 spatially resolved measurements of the surface composition of Mercury from MESSENGER’s X-Ray Spectrometer. The surface footprints of these measurements are categorized according to geological terrain. Northern smooth plains deposits and the plains interior to the Caloris basin differ compositionally from older terrain on Mercury. The older terrain generally ha...

We report mass-dependent and mass-independent Ca isotopic variations in nine chondrites from three groups: carbonaceous, ordinary and enstatite chondrites. There is about 0.25‰ per amu, i.e., 1‰ in Ca/Ca, variation in chondrites: carbonaceous chondrites have the lightest Ca isotopes, enstatite chondrites have modeled bulk Earth like Ca isotopes, and ordinary chondrites are in between. The corre...

Introduction: The Zakłodzie meteorite, a moderately weathered find discovered near the village Zakłodzie, Poland, is an ungrouped enstatite-rich achondrite ascribed to an impact melt [1] or internal melting within the parent body [2]. During our nanomineralogy investigation of the Zakłodzie meteorite, a new Fe-dominant monosulfide mineral, (Fe,Zn,Mn)S with the P63mc wurtzite-type structure was ...

available online at http://meteoritics.org 53 © Meteoritical Society, 2004. Printed in USA. Enstatite aggregates with niningerite, heideite, and oldhamite from the Kaidun carbonaceous chondrite: Relatives of aubrites and EH chondrites? G. KURAT,1* E. ZINNER,2 F. BRANDSTÄTTER,1 and A. V. IVANOV3 1Naturhistorisches Museum, Postfach 417, A-1014 Vienna, Austria 2Laboratory for Space Sciences and th...