Petrology of Anomalous Mafic Achondrite Polymict Breccia Pasamonte

Abstract: The most common asteroidal igneous meteorites are eucrite-type basalts and gabbros – rocks composed of ferroan pigeonite and augite, calcic plagioclase, silica, ilmenite, troilite, Ca-phosphate, chromite and Fe-metal [1]. These rocks are thought to have formed on a single asteroid, widely considered to be 4 Vesta, along with howardites and diogenites [1, 2]. High precision O-isotopic analyses have shown that some eucrites have small, well-resolved O-isotopic differences from the group mean [3…