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| Basic information | Name: La Serena This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1990 Country: Chile Mass:  663 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 120 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-MG. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 82:
La Serena Chile Recognized before 1990 Iron, medium octahedrite (IIICD) A 663 g iron meteorite was found in the mineral collection of Antonio Alphonso when this was purchased by LSC. Classification and description (J. T. Wasson, UCLA; see Wasson and Canut de Bon, 1997): band width 0.9 mm; meteorite appears sand-blasted and may have originated in the Atacama desert; composition differs from other IIICD iron meteorites (Ni = 7.62%, Ga = 70.5 ppm, Ge = 204 ppm, Ir = 0.548 ppm, Au = 1.665 ppm). Specimens: main mass, LSC; type specimen, UCLA. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) LSC: Museo Mineralogico Ignacio Domeyko, Universidad de La Serena, Casilla 554, La Serena, Chile (institutional address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 2532 approved meteorites from Chile (plus 16 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||