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Bluewing 002
Basic information Name: Bluewing 002
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1999
Country: United States
Mass:help 23 g
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H5
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 86  (2002)  H5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 11505 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Data from:
  MB86
  Table 3
  Line 1:
State/Prov/County:Pershing, Nevada
Origin or pseudonym:Dry Lake
Date:28 Oct 1999
Latitude:40°14.489'N
Longitude:118°56.858'W
Mass (g):23
Pieces:1
Class:H5
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W4
Fayalite (mol%):19.5 ± 0.6
Classifier:A. Rubin (UCLA)
Type spec mass (g):5
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Gessler
Finder:Paul Gessler
Institutions
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UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
Gessler: Nicholas Gessler, 2010 Calgary Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90077, United States (private address; updated 7 Jul 2016)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 86, MAPS 37, A157-A184 (2002)
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Photos from the Encyclopedia of Meteorites:
Paul Gessler   
Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (40° 14'N, 118° 57'W)
     Recommended::   (40° 14' 29"N, 118° 56' 51"W)
Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 0.9 km apart

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 184 approved meteorites from Nevada, United States (plus 4 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 1925 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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