Bitburg—A Group-IB Iron Meteorite with Silicate Inclusions

E. Rambaldi, E. Jagoutz and J. T. Wasson¹

Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (Otto-Hahn-Institut), 65 Mainz, Germany

¹Present address: Department of Chemistry and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Summary: Chemical and mineralogical investigations show that the Bitburg meteorite is not a pallasite, but a group-IB iron meteorite. Like other members of this group it contains chondritic silicates.

Mineralogical Magazine; March 1974 v. 39; no. 305; p. 595-600; DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1974.039.305.14
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