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Silver Dry Lake 002
Basic information Name: Silver Dry Lake 002
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: SvDL 002
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: United States
Mass:help 16.5 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 35:
State/Prov/County:San Bernardino, CA
Origin or pseudonym:Dry lake
Date:10 Dec 2000
Latitude:35°20.666'N
Longitude:116°06.891'W
Mass (g):16.5
Pieces:1
Class:H6
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W4
Fayalite (mol%):18.9 ± 0.2
Classifier:A. Rubin (UCLA)
Type spec mass (g):4.2
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Gessler
Finder:Nick Gessler
Comments:Breccia
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)
Gessler: Nicholas Gessler, 2010 Calgary Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90077, United States (private address; updated 7 Jul 2016)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 86, MAPS 37, A157-A184 (2002)
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (35° 21'N, 116° 7'W)
     Recommended::   (35° 20' 40"N, 116° 6' 53"W)
Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 0.6 km apart

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 269 approved meteorites from California, United States (plus 24 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 1925 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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