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Grosvenor Mountains 95502
Basic information Name: Grosvenor Mountains 95502
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: GRO 95502
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1995
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 5.36 kg
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 20(2)  (1997)  L3.5
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 82  (1998)  L3.5
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  L3.5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L3.5
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 33(1)  (2010)  L3.2
Recommended:  L3.2    [explanation]

This is 1 of 17 approved meteorites classified as L3.2.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Revised 1 Sep 2007: Reclassified by Grossman and Brearley (2005)
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Data from:
  MB82
  Table A1
  Line 136:
Origin or pseudonym:Outer Cecily
Mass (g):5362.7
Class:L3.5
Weathering grade:B
Fayalite (mol%):2-24
Ferrosilite (mol%):1-27
Comments:NTL=<1; 95502 pairing group
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References: Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 20(2) (1997), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
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Photograph from unknown source A photo is in the write-up above
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courtesy Dr Carlton Allen, JSC-KT, NASA   
Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (85° 40'S, 175° 0'E)
     Recommended::   (85° 40'S, 175° 0'E)

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     This is 1 of 44543 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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