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Red Dry Lake 023
Basic information Name: Red Dry Lake 023
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: RdDL 023
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2002
Country: United States
Mass:help 5.9 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 88  (2004)  L5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L5
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 8891 approved meteorites (plus 5 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:
  MB88
  Table 3
  Line 17:
State/Prov/County:Mojave, AZ
Origin or pseudonym:dry lake
Date:5 Jul 2002
Latitude:35°39.825'N
Longitude:114°1.619'W
Mass (g):5.9
Pieces:1
Class:L5
Shock stage:S4
Weathering grade:W4
Fayalite (mol%):24.9
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):1.5
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Verish
Finder:R. Verish
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)
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. 88, MAPS 39, A215-A272 (2004)
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (35° 39' 50"N, 114° 1' 37"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 179 approved meteorites from Arizona, United States (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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