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| Basic information | Name: Ridgecrest This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1958 Country: United States Mass:  9.7 g | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11567 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 28:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. NEW RIDGECREST STONY METEORITE, USA Name: RIDGECREST. The place of fall or discovery: Ridgecrest, California, USA. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, May 1958. Class and type: STONY, chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: 9.685 gr; dimensions: 2.5 X 2.0 X 1.0 cm. Circumstances of the fall of discovery: The meteorite is of oriented shape: the forepart is rounded and smooth and the rear is flat. It is covered by an obvious fusion crust although its surface was corroded. A small fragment has been chipped from the meteorite. Source: Articles: L. E. Humiston (California, USA) «A Preliminary Report on the Ridgecrest, California, Meteorite, a New Aerolite (C-1176, 356)» an F. C. Leonard (Los Angeles, USA), «Further Remarks on the Ridgecrest, California, Aerolite (CN-1176, 356)» in the «Meteoritics», the Journal of the Meteoritical Society, v. 2, No. 1, May, 1963. Writeup from MB 88: Ridgecrest, new classification:
Ridgecrest (San Bernadino County, California, USA: found 1958) has now been classified as an H5 chondrite, S2, W2 (olivine mean Fa = 18.6 mol%). Classification (A. Rubin, UCLA): it is not paired with Muroc or Muroc Dry Lake, as suggested in the 5th edition of the Catalogue of meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 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) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 28, Moscow (1963) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 88, MAPS 39, A215-A272 (2004)
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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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| Synonyms: |
Ridecrest (From MetBase) | ||||||||||||||||||||