| MetSoc Home Publications Contacts |
|
||
|
||
| Rancho Blanco | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic information | Name: Rancho Blanco This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1987 Country: Mexico Mass:  155 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 275 approved meteorites classified as Eucrite-mmict. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Eucrites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 67:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Rancho Blanco Nuevo Mercurio, Zacatecas, Mexico Found 1987, in the summer Stone. Achondrite, Ca-rich. Eucrite. A single, complete stone weighing 155 g was found about 6 km W. of Nuevo Mercurio (R. Haag (1988) pers. comm.). | ||||||||||||||||
| Catalogs: |
| ||||||||||||||||
| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 67, Meteoritics 24, 57-60 (1989)
| ||||||||||||||||
Geography:
|
Statistics: This is 1 of 14 approved meteorites from Zacatecas, Mexico This is 1 of 113 approved meteorites from Mexico (plus 4 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||
| Proximity search: | |||||||||||||||||