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Tungsten Mountain 001
Basic information Name: Tungsten Mountain 001
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: TM 001
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2000
Country: United States
Mass:help 31.7 g
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H4
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 86  (2002)  H4
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H4
Recommended:  H4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 6407 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4.   [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 48:
State/Prov/County:Churchill, Nevada
Origin or pseudonym:Dry lake
Date:28 Feb 2000
Latitude:39°38'10"N
Longitude:117°39'17"W
Mass (g):31.73
Pieces:1
Class:H4
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):19.3 ± 0.5
Classifier:A. Rubin and Imai (UCLA)
Type spec mass (g):5.28
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Gessler
Finder:Paul Gessler
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)
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:   (39° 38' 10"N, 117° 39' 17"W)
     Recommended::   (39° 38' 10"N, 117° 39' 17"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 158 approved meteorites from Nevada, United States (plus 4 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 1893 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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