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| Basic information | Name: Mount Baldr A76002 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: MBRA76002 This meteorite may also be called Mount Baldr 76002 (MBR 76002) in publications. Observed fall: No Year found: 1976 Country: Antarctica [Collected by National Institute of Polar Research, Japan] Mass:  13.77 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 6500 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as H6. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 56:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE MOUNT BALDR, ANTARCTICA, STONY METEORITE Name: MOUNT BALDR Place of find: West of Mt. Baldr, upper Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. 77° 35'2"S., 160° 19'35"E. Date of find: December 15, 1976. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H6). Number of individual specimens: 2 Total weight: 17.89 kg Circumstances of find: Two stones were found by the U.S.-Japan Joint Expedition to Antarctica during the 1976-1977 season, on blue ice. They weighed 13.782 kg and 4.108 kg respectively and were found 700 m apart. Source: W.A. Cassidy et al., 1977. Antarctica: a deep-freeze storehouse for meteorites. Science 198, 727-731. Note: The smaller stone was also referred to as Mount Baldr No. 1, Mount Baldr (a), and the larger stone as Mount Baldr No. 2, Mount Baldr (b). These are synonymous, H.W. Weber and L. Schultz, 1978. Meteoritics 13, abstr. See also: K. Yanai, 1978. First meteorites found in Victoria Land, Antarctica, December 1976 and January 1977. Mem. Nat. Inst. Polar Res., Special Issue No. 8, 51-69, and E. Olsen et al., 1978. Eleven new meteorites from Antarctica, 1976-1977. Meteoritics 13, 209-225. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB76 Table 2 Line 4752: |
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| References: | Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 7(1) (1984), JSC, Houston Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 76, Meteoritics 29, 100-143 (1994)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 43840 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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