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Bluebird
Basic information Name: Bluebird
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2002
Country: United States
Mass:help 3.65 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 89  (2005)  L6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12780 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:
  MB89
  Table 2
  Line 1:
State/Prov/County:Mohave, AZ
Date:15 Jan 2002
Latitude:35°52.050'N
Longitude:114°11.500'W
Mass (g):3650
Pieces:2
Class:L6
Shock stage:S4
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):24.5
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):26.4
Main mass:Verish
Finder:John Wolfe
Comments:Clearly not paired with Gold Basin (L4, W3)
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)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 89, MAPS 40, A201-A263 (2005)
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (35° 52' 3"N, 114° 11' 30"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 179 approved meteorites from Arizona, United States (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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