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Buck Mountain Wash
Basic information Name: Buck Mountain Wash
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2004
Country: United States
Mass:help 798 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 89  (2005)  H3-5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H3-5
Recommended:  H3-5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 85 approved meteorites classified as H3-5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Data from:
  MB89
  Table 2
  Line 2:
State/Prov/County:Mohave, AZ
Date:28 Jan 2004
Latitude:34°43.472'N
Longitude:114°12.53'W
Mass (g):798
Pieces:1
Class:H3-5
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):16.1
Ferrosilite (mol%):13.3
Classifier:M. Hutson, Cascadia
Type spec mass (g):34.7
Type spec location:Cascadia
Main mass:E. Thompson
Finder:L. Sloan
Institutions
   and collections		 Cascadia: Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory, Portland State University, Department of Geology, Room 17 Cramer Hall, 1721 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 28 Oct 2011)
Thompson: Edwin Thompson, 5150 Dawn St., Lake Oswego, OR 97035, United States (private address)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 89, MAPS 40, A201-A263 (2005)
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Don Edwards   
Larry Sloan   
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (34° 43' 28"N, 114° 12' 32"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 178 approved meteorites from Arizona, United States (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 1919 approved meteorites from United States (plus 867 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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Synonymshelp: Yucca 002 (MetBull 101)

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