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Umbarger
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:help 13 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 60  (1982)  L3-6
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  L3-6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L3/6
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)
Comments: Revised 24 Apr 2007: Reclassified as type 6 based on Xie and Sharp (2004) MAPS 39, 2043-2054
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Writeup from MB 60:
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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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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (34° 57' 0"N, 102° 7' 3"W)
     Recommended::   (34° 57' 0"N, 102° 7' 3"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 316 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters)
     This is 1 of 1925 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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