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Glanerbrug
Basic information Name: Glanerbrug
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: Yes
Year fell: 1990
Country: Netherlands
Mass:help 670 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 70  (1991)  LL
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  LL6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L/LL5
Recommended:  L/LL5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 19 approved meteorites classified as L/LL5.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L/LL chondrites, L/LL chondrites (type 4-7), LL chondrites, Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
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Glanerbrug

Near Enschede, Netherlands

Fell, 7 April 1990, 2034 hr

Stone. Ordinary chondrite (LL breccia)

A stony meteorite fell on the roof of a house. It broke into numerous fragments, the largest weighing 135 g. The total recovered mass was about 500 g. A fireball was reported by several hundred people in the Netherlands and Germany, orbital elements were calculated from these observations. Source: L. Lindner et al., Global Volcanism Network 15, No. 4 and No. 8 (1990). Analysis, olivine Fa26, pyroxene Fs21 in the lighter grey parts, olivine Fa31, pyroxene Fs25 in the darker grey parts, abstract by Lindner et al. (1990) Meteoritics 25, 379-380. The meteorite is now at the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 70, Meteoritics 26, 68-69 (1991)
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Netherlands
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (52° 13' 5"N, 6° 57' 4"E)
     Recommended::   (52° 12'N, 6° 52'E)
Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 6.1 km apart

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     This is 1 of 2 approved meteorites from Overijssel, Netherlands
     This is 1 of 6 approved meteorites from Netherlands (plus 3 unapproved names)
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