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Willcox Playa 002
Basic information Name: Willcox Playa 002
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: United States
Mass:help 12 g
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  L6
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 85  (2001)  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:
  MB85
  Table 2
  Line 34:
State/Prov/County:Cochise, Arizona
Origin or pseudonym:Dry lake
Date:1 Feb 2001
Latitude:32°10.90'N
Longitude:109°47.37'W
Mass (g):12
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S4
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):25.1
Classifier:A. Rubin (UCLA)
Type spec mass (g):1.9
Main mass:Verish
Finder:Robert Verish
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)
Verish: Robert Verish, Meteorite-Recovery Lab, P.O. Box 463084, Escondido, CA 92046, United States; Website (private address; updated 27 May 2009)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 85, MAPS 36, A293-A322 (2001)
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Robert Verish   
Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (32° 11'N, 109° 47'W)
     Recommended::   (32° 10' 54"N, 109° 47' 22"W)
Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 0.6 km apart

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 179 approved meteorites from Arizona, United States (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 1925 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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