angrite

angrite

[′aŋ‚grīt]
(geology)
An achondrite stony meteorite composed principally of augite with a little olivine and troilite.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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All previous candidates for pieces of Mercury (called angrites and aubrites; S&T: April 2012, page 31) are close but imperfect matches to the surface composition found by NASA's Messenger spacecraft.
"NWA 7325 is tantalizing, and certainly more consistent with the Messenger results than either angrites or aubrites," he explains, "but we need a [spacecraftreturned sample] for 'ground truth'."
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