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Mezö-Madaras is a very interesting meteorite because it is unequilibrated, meaning that its asteroid parent-body underwent very little change after forming 4.56 billion years ago.
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Title: Alteration of Chondrites on the Sea Floor: Mezö-Madaras (L3.7)
Authors: J.L. Holstein , B. Schmitz, and P. R. Heck
Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA. E-Mail: jholstein@fieldmuseum.org, 2 Division of Nuclear Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 3 Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Introduction & Motivation: Meteorites that land on the sea floor and get embedded into sediments experience alteration through weathering and diagenesis.

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The Mezö-Madaras (L3.7) meteorite fell in Harghita, Romania, on the 4th September, 1852.
A total mass of 22.7 kg was recovered.

46° 30'N, 25° 44'E



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