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Red Dry Lake 004
Basic information Name: Red Dry Lake 004
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: RdDL 004
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: United States
Mass:help 13.5 g
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H6
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 86  (2002)  H6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H6
Recommended:  H6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 6775 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as H6.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB86
  Table 3
  Line 29:
State/Prov/County:Mohave, AZ
Origin or pseudonym:Dry lake
Date:28 Dec 2001
Latitude:35°38.7842'N
Longitude:114°1.7091'W
Mass (g):13.5
Pieces:1
Class:H6
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W5
Fayalite (mol%):19.0 ± 0.3
Classifier:A. Rubin (UCLA)
Type spec mass (g):2.7
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Verish
Finder:Verish
Institutions
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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)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 86, MAPS 37, A157-A184 (2002)
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Robert Verish      
Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (35° 39'N, 114° 2'W)
     Recommended::   (35° 38' 47"N, 114° 1' 43"W)
Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 0.6 km apart

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 179 approved meteorites from Arizona, United States (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 1925 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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