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Patuxent Range 91500

Basic information

Name: Patuxent Range 91500
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: PAT 91500
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1991
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass: 16.54 kg

Classification
history:

Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:	AMN 15(2)	(1992)	L5
Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 76	(1994)	L5
NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	L5
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	L5
Recommended:			L5 [explanation]

This is 1 of 8581 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5. [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Data from:
  MB76
  Table 2
  Line 4784:

Origin or pseudonym:	Lekander Nunatak
Mass (g):	16540.6
Class:	L5
Weathering grade:	C
Fayalite (mol%):	24
Ferrosilite (mol%):	20
Comments:	NTL=0.1±0.1

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References:

Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 15(2) (1992), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 76, Meteoritics 29, 100-143 (1994)

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Geography:

Antarctica

Coordinates:
Catalogue of Meteorites:	(84° 43'S, 64° 30'W)
Recommended::	(85° 4' 27"S, 64° 27' 57"W)

Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 39.9 km apart

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

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