kuratite
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Kuratite, named for Dr. Gero Kurat (1938–2009), meteorite researcher and Curator of the Meteorite Collection at the Vienna Natural History Museum, was first recognized as a new mineral by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification in 2014 from a small meteorite sample.
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- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Kur
- chemical formula
- Ca₂(Fe²⁺₅Ti)O₂[Si₄Al₂O₁₈]
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.DH.40
- crystal system
- triclinic crystal system
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Kuratite, named for Dr. Gero Kurat (1938–2009), meteorite researcher and Curator of the Meteorite Collection at the Vienna Natural History Museum, was first recognized as a new mineral by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification in 2014 from a small meteorite sample.
==References== General references: Mineralienatlas Kuratite: New Mineral Discovered in Meteorite
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