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| Basic information | Name: Sierra Colorada This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1995 Country: Argentina Mass:  71.3 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 8974 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) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 81:
Sierra Colorada Rio Negro Province, Argentina Found 1995 May 7 Ordinary chondrite (L5) A 71.3 kg stone was found by a rancher while tending cattle. Mineralogy and classification (C. Lewis and J. Clark, ASU; J. Saxton, UMan; K. Metzler, MNB): olivine, Fa24–26; pyroxene, Fs26; contains inclusions up to several millimeters in size that have little pyroxene. Specimens: main mass, Killgore; 1.6 kg, SI; 1.5 kg, MPI; 30 g, UMan. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
ASU: Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1404, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 14 Jan 2012) MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011) SI: Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-119, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Jan 2012) Killgore: Marvin and Kitty Killgore, Southwest Meteorite Laboratory, P.O. Box 95, Payson, AZ 85547, United States; Website (private address) MPI: Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Abteilung Kosmochemie, Postfach 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany; Website (institutional address; updated 7 Nov 2015) UMan: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M139PL, United Kingdom; Website (institutional address; updated 7 May 2024) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 81, MAPS 32, A159-A166 (1997)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 5 approved meteorites from Rio Negro, Argentina (plus 1 unapproved name) This is 1 of 81 approved meteorites from Argentina (plus 9 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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