Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
The Suizhou meteorite, a heavily shocked (S6) L6 chondrite
- Type locality
- Suizhou meteorite (Suizhou L6 chondrite)
- Xihe
- Zengdu District
- Suizhou
- Hubei
- China
31.6167°, 113.4667°
1recorded occurrences
Crystallography
- Space group
- Pnma
- Cell parameters
- a = 5.0016(5) Å · b = 7.0031(3) Å · c = 4.8460(3) Å
- Ratio a:b:c
- 1 : 1.400 : 0.969
- Unit cell volume
- 169.74 ų
- Z
- 2
- Morphology
Grain.
- Type-locality form
Found in an Fe-rich grain in shock melt. The core of this grain consists of hiroseite crystals in a matrix of Fe-bearing periclase, mantled by a rim of ringwoodite-ahrensite solid solution.
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- Hiroseiet
- IMA2019-019
In other languages
- German
- Hiroseit · IMA2019-019
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.9.DA.35
- 9SilicatesClass
- 9.DInosilicatesDivision
- 9.DAInosilicates with 2-periodic single chains, Si2O6; pyroxene familyGroup
- 9.DA.35HiroseiteSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 2019Miyawaki, Ritsuro, Hatert, Frédéric, Pasero, Marco, Mills, Stuart J. (2019) CNMNC Newsletter No 50, New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2019. Mineralogical Magazine, 83 (4) 615-620 doi:10.1180/mgm.2019.46DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2019.46
- 2020Bindi, L., Shim, S-H., Sharp, T.G., Xie, X. (2020) Evidence forthe charge disproportionation of iron in extraterrestrial bridgmanite. Science Advances 6(2) (eaay 7893).
- 2021(2021) Hiroseite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Hiroseite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/hiroseite-53682},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}