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Zulu Queen | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Zulu Queen This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1976 Country: United States Mass: 200 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 51 approved meteorites classified as L3.7. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 65:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE ZULU QUEEN, USA, STONY METEORITE Name: ZULU QUEEN Place of find: Dale mining district, Pinto Mountains, Riverside County, California, USA; 18 miles ESE of Twentynine Palms and five miles W of the Zulu Queen mine. 33°59'N.,115°41 'W Date of find: 1976 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L3), olivine Fa15-27, peak in histogram of concentrations at Fa25. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 200 g, approximately Circumstances of find: Found by the late Mrs. Alice Zimmerman while prospecting in the Pinto Mountains. Source: E.R.D. Scott, Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA. Note: This stone is distinct from the Pinto Mountains stone, an L6 chondrite. The co-ordinates given for the discovery site of the Pinto Mountains stone (L. LaPaz, Meteoritics, 1, p. 295) are incorrect. From correspondence between Vmcenz Zimmerman and L. LaPaz, J.T. Wasson estimates the correct find-site co-ordinates to be 34°00'N., 115°47'W | ||||||||||||||||
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 65, Meteoritics 22, 157-163 (1987)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 269 approved meteorites from California, United States (plus 24 unapproved names) This is 1 of 1924 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms: |
Pinto Mountains (b) (From MetBase) |