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| Basic information | Name: Queretaro This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1971 Country: Mexico Mass:  5 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 6415 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 68:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Queretaro Near Queretaro City, Queretaro, Mexico Found 1971 Stone. Ordinary chondrite (H4). A complete, very weathered individual, weighing 11 lbs, was found as a number of fragments which fitted together two miles N of Queretaro City; classification, olivine Fa18 R. S. Clarke, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, pers. comm., 1989. 233 g, Washington, U.S. Nat. Mus. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 68, Meteoritics 25, 59-70 (1990)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Queretaro, Mexico This is 1 of 113 approved meteorites from Mexico (plus 4 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||
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