Meteor/Meteorite News- Kaidun--A Meteorite with Everything but the Kitchen Sink 9NOV09

Kaidun--A Meteorite with Everything but the Kitchen Sink
--- This unique breccia is called a single-stone meteorite collection.

Written by Linda M. V. Martel
Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology

An unprecedented variety of chondritic and achondritic meteorite fragments make up the Kaidun meteorite. In a well-illustrated 2003 paper Michael Zolensky (NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas) and Andrei Ivanov (Vernadsky Institute, Moscow, Russia) summarize two decades of work on the complex, fragmental breccia, reviewing the types and origins of clasts present in Kaidun and theories for the origin of its parent body. ...

Whole Article with photos:

http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Oct09/Kaidun_meteorite.html