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L Group

With about 6,500 members (including probable pairings), the chondrites of the L group represent the second largest group of ordinary chondrites. The "L" stands for "low iron" - especially in its free form. L chondrites contain a weight percentage of 20 to 25% total iron, but only 4 to 10% nickel-iron is found as free metal. Therefore, L chondrites are also attracted to a magnet, but much less than their cousins of the H group.

The L chondrites belong to the petrological types 3 - 7, with a characteristic peak at type 6. More than 4,000 have been classified as L6, about 1,300 as L5, just 400 as L4, and only about 300 as L3. Brecciated members that show clasts of several petrologic types do occur, but they are more rare than in the H group. Besides magnetite and nickel-iron, the L chondrites are composed of olivine and the orthopyroxene hypersthene. Consequently, they have been called "olivine hypersthene chondrites" or "hypersthene chondrites" in older literature and papers. However, this name is not fitting modern meteoritics and the Meteoritical Society discourages the use of these names.

When it comes to the origin of the L chondrites it has been suspected that they might be former parts of the near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros which has been intensely studied by the spacecraft NEAR-Shoemaker recently. The reflectance spectra of 433 Eros and the L chondrites seem to match closely - however, most L chondrites show signs of severe shock metamorphism suggesting a violent history of its parent body. Maybe the real parent of the L chondrites was some kind of relative or a former part of 433 Eros that has been entirely disrupted when it collided with another asteroid.

 

Alfianello

L6, W2, S5

Fall in February, 16, 1883, 16 h 15 

From Lombardy,Italy
228 kg

A rare historical fall from Europe

 

Alfianello7

77 x 53 x 30 mm

167 gr ........ !!!!

 endcut with crust 

 

 

Alfianello1

22 x 12 mm

2.582 gr

Price: $200

 

 

 



Alfianello2

28 x 16 mm

2.036 gr

Price: $160

Nice shock vein


Alfianello3

28 x 16 mm

2.080 gr

Nice shock vein

Price: $160 

Alfianello4

33 x 12 mm

2.814 gr

Price: $225

 

Alfianello5

28 x 21 mm

3.556 gr

Price: $280 

Alfianello6

30 x 23 x 1.5 mm

3.902 gr

Price: $300 

 
 

Mocs L6   S3-5

Transylvania, Romania 

300 kg,

Fall the 3 february 1882 16 h 00

 

Mocs1

29.3 gr

57 x 60 x 4 mm

Price: $580

Mocs2

25.6 gr

48 x 55 x 4 mm

Price: $480 

Mocs3

762 gr

95 x 95 x 70 mm

Price: HOLD
a perfect crusted individual with an open window, has Wien Museum label.....

 

Chateau-Renard L6

Montargis Loiret, only 30 kg

Fall 12 june 1841 13 h 30

 

Chateau-Renard1

0.416 gr

19 x 6 x 2 mm

HOLD  Price: $60

slice

Chateau-Renard2

0.756 gr

19 x7 x 2 mm

Price: $80 HOLD

slice

Chateau-Renard3

0.742 gr

17 x 8 x1.5 mm

Price: $110

slice

Chateau-Renard4

1.758 gr

23 x 13 x 2 mm

Price: $250

slice

Chateau-Renard5

1.864 gr

17 x16 x2 mm

Price: $270

slice

Chateau-Renard6

1.970 gr

15 x 15 x 2.5 mm

Price: $280

slice

Chateau-Renard7

3.312 gr

22 x 19 x 3 mm

Price: $400

End cut

 

 

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