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Rabbit Dry Lake
Basic information Name: Rabbit Dry Lake
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: United States
Mass:help 20 g
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  L6
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 85  (2001)  L6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12780 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB85
  Table 2
  Line 24:
State/Prov/County:San Bernardino, Calif.
Origin or pseudonym:Dry lake
Date:3 Dec 2000
Latitude:34°26.74'N
Longitude:117°0.65'W
Mass (g):20
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W5
Fayalite (mol%):24.5
Classifier:A. Rubin (UCLA)
Type spec mass (g):4
Main mass:W. Fox, Riverside, Calif
Finder:William Fox
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)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 85, MAPS 36, A293-A322 (2001)
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (34° 27'N, 117° 1'W)
     Recommended::   (34° 26' 44"N, 117° 0' 39"W)
Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 0.7 km apart

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 269 approved meteorites from California, United States (plus 24 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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