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| Basic information | Name: La Escondida This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1979 Country: Mexico Mass:  8.2 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11077 approved meteorites (plus 22 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 57:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE LA ESCONDIDA, MEXICO, STONY METEORITE Name: LA ESCONDIDA Place of find: About 14 km NNE. of the village of Nuevo Mercurio, Zacatecas, Mexico, near an abandoned ranch house. 24°20'30"N., 102°04'30"W. Date of find: March, 1979. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite+chondrite (H5). Olivine Fa17, pyroxene Fs14. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 8.2 g. Circumstances of find: Collected by Prof. R. Trevino while searching for specimens of the Nuevo Mercurio fall. More weathered and petrographically distinct from Nuevo Mercurio. Source: Dr. E.A. King, Department of Geology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77004, USA. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 57, Meteoritics 15, 93-104 (1980)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 14 approved meteorites from Zacatecas, Mexico This is 1 of 113 approved meteorites from Mexico (plus 4 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||
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