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| Basic information | Name: Felt (b) This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1990 Country: United States Mass:  5.59 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is the only approved meteorite classified as L3.5-5. Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 83:
Felt (b) Cimarron County, Oklahoma, USA Found 1990 or 1991 Ordinary chondrite (L3.5) A 5.59 kg stone was found by a farmer plowing a grain field. Mineralogy and classification (A. Brearley, UNM; A. Rubin, UCLA; P. Benoit, UArk): an L chondrite genomict breccia; about two-thirds of the material is L3.5 (based on induced thermoluminescence sensitivity), shock stage, S4; the other one-third is L5, shock stage, S5; black melt veins are abundant; typical olivine composition ~Fa25 (range Fa1–31); metal abundance, ~9.3 vol%; weathering grade, W1. Specimens: main mass, Reed; type specimens, 42.9 g UCLA; 37.5 g, UNM. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
UArk: Cosmochemistry Group, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, United States (institutional address; updated 16 Oct 2011) UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) UNM: Institute of Meteoritics MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 USA, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 12 Feb 2015) Reed: Blaine Reed, P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416, United States; Website (private address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 83, MAPS 34, A169-A186 (1999)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 42 approved meteorites from Oklahoma, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1893 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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