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Tentacle Ridge 00001
Basic information Name: Tentacle Ridge 00001
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: TEN 00001
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 11.1 g
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  L6
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 25(2)  (2002)  L6
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 87  (2003)  L6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12727 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB87
  Table A1
  Line 277:
Mass (g):11.143
Class:L6
Weathering grade:B/C
Fayalite (mol%):24
Ferrosilite (mol%):21
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References: Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 25(2) (2002), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003)
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     Recommended::   (80° 15'S, 153° 30'E)

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     This is 1 of 44400 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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