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Mud Dry Lake
Basic information Name: Mud Dry Lake
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2002
Country: United States
Mass:help 18.26 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 88  (2004)  H3
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H3
Recommended:  H3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 710 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H3.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Data from:
  MB88
  Table 3
  Line 15:
State/Prov/County:Nye, NV
Origin or pseudonym:dry lake
Date:12 Jan 2002
Latitude:37°51.564'N
Longitude:117°01.258'W
Mass (g):18255
Pieces:many
Class:H3
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):18.2
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):42.6
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Verish
Finder:R. Verish
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)
Verish: Robert Verish, Meteorite-Recovery Lab, P.O. Box 463084, Escondido, CA 92046, United States; Website (private address; updated 27 May 2009)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 88, MAPS 39, A215-A272 (2004)
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United States
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (37° 51' 34"N, 117° 1' 15"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 184 approved meteorites from Nevada, United States (plus 4 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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