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Mount DeWitt 03001
Basic information Name: Mount DeWitt 03001
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: DEW 03001
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2004
Country: Antarctica [Collected by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy]
Mass:help 725 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 88  (2004)  LL6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  LL6
Recommended:  LL6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 2930 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as LL6.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB88
  Table 2
  Line 25:
Date:8 Jan 2004
Latitude:77°12'33.1"S
Longitude:159°45'40.2"E
Mass (g):725.2
Pieces:1
Class:LL6
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W0/1
Fayalite (mol%):28.2
Ferrosilite (mol%):23.6
Magnetic suscept.:4.11
Classifier:A. Burroni and L. Folco, MNA-SI; magnetic classification (based on SM30 measurements), P. Rochette, CEREGE and L. Folco MNA-SI according to Rochette et al. (2003)
Main mass:MNA-SI
Comments:fragmental breccia; thin section, MNA-SI
Institutions
   and collections		 CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 2023)
MNA-SI: Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide, Università di Siena, Via Laterina 8, I-53100 Siena, Italy; Website (institutional address; updated 13 Dec 2011)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 88, MAPS 39, A215-A272 (2004)
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (77° 12' 33"S, 159° 45' 40"E)

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