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Nova 005 | |||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Nova 005 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2002 Country: North America? Mass: 242 g | ||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 8876 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L5. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||
Comments: | Approved 21 Feb 2005 | ||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 90:
Nova 005 Location is unconfirmed within the Americas Find: 2002 Ordinary chondrite (L5) History: One mass of 242 g was found. There have been a variety of explanations of how and where this meteorite was found. The current version involves an 80-year-old man as having found this stone while hunting for obsidian artifacts in the Cactus Flat-Coso Junction-Red Hill-Fossil Falls area (the east side of Rose Valley, California). The find location has been alternatively represented as Owens Lake, then Rose Valley, and most recently Fossil Falls. Physical Characteristics: (A. Rubin, UCLA) The stone was found with 100% black fusion crust with a few spots of a rust-like color. The interior is cream-colored and sparsely speckled with orange spots. Petrography: The sample is ~30 vol% chondrules and 70 vol% matrix. Most sulfide and metal grains appear slightly oxidized. Olivine (Fa24.2). Note: The terrestrial age (Battelle Labs) is 25 ± 6 yr. Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L5); S1, W1. Specimens: A 41.2 g sample is on deposit at UCLA. A total of ~200 g is held by Meteorite Recovery Lab. | ||||||||
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) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 90, MAPS 41, 1383-1418 (2006)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from North America? | ||||||||
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