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Majuba 002

Basic information

Name: Majuba 002
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2003
Country: United States
Mass: 2.42 kg

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 89	(2005)	H4
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	H4
Recommended:			H4 [explanation]

This is 1 of 6493 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Data from:
  MB89
  Table 2
  Line 71:

State/Prov/County:	Pershing, NV
Date:	11 May 2003
Latitude:	40°37.699'N
Longitude:	118°25.002'W
Mass (g):	2420
Pieces:	1
Class:	H4
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	W5
Fayalite (mol%):	18.3
Classifier:	A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):	35.1
Type spec location:	PSF
Main mass:	Verish
Finder:	D. Thomas

Institutions
and collections

PSF: Planetary Studies Foundation,10 Winterwood Lane, Unit B, Galena, Illinois 61036-9283, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 1 Dec 2011)
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::	(40° 37' 42"N, 118° 25' 0"W)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 184 approved meteorites from Nevada, United States (plus 4 unapproved names)
This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)

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