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| Basic information | Name: Umbarger This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1954 Country: United States Mass:  13 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12281 approved meteorites (plus 8 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) | ||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Revised 24 Apr 2007: Reclassified as type 6 based on Xie and Sharp (2004) MAPS 39, 2043-2054 | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 60:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE UMBARGER, USA, STONY METEORITE Name: UMBARGER Place of find: 2.9 km WSW of Umbarger, Randall County, Texas, USA. 34°57'N., 102°7'3"W. Date of find: 1954, recognized 1979 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L3-6). Olivine Fa23.2-33.3. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 13 kg Circumstances of find: Not reported. Source: B. D. Dod, E. Olsen, D. Eatough and P. Sipiera, 1981. Umbarger and Summerfield: two new chondrites from Texas. Meteoritics 16, 307, abs. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 60, Meteoritics 17, 93-97 (1982)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 313 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters) This is 1 of 1893 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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