Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Mount Prestrud 95400

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Mount Prestrud 95400

Basic information

Name: Mount Prestrud 95400
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: PRE 95400
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1995
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass: 2.43 kg

Classification
history:

Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:	AMN 20(1)	(1997)	H5
Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 82	(1998)	H5
NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	H5
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	H5
Recommended:			H5 [explanation]

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)

Data from:
  MB82
  Table A1
  Line 301:

Origin or pseudonym:	Prestrud-Bjaaland Ice Tongue
Mass (g):	2431.8
Class:	H5
Weathering grade:	A
Fayalite (mol%):	19
Ferrosilite (mol%):	17
Comments:	NTL=103±3

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References:

Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 20(1) (1997), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)

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Geography:

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Catalogue of Meteorites:	(86° 34'S, 165° 7'W)
Recommended::	(86° 34'S, 165° 7'W)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 43840 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)

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