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Bluff (a)
Basic information Name: Bluff (a)
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1878
Country: United States
Mass:help 153.3 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 78  (1995)  L5
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  L5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L5
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 8877 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)
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 78:

Bluff (a) and (b)

Fayette County, Texas, USA

Found 1878 to 1917

Ordinary chondrites

A study of meteorites from Fayette County, Texas (McCoy et al., 1995b), showed that the three Bluff stones listed in Graham et al. (1985) represent two distinct falls. Details are listed in Table 1. Classification and analysis by Timothy J. McCoy and Klaus Keil, University of Hawaii, Planetary Geosciences Division, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA, and Arthur J. Ehlmann, Department of Geology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 76129, USA.

Data from:
  MB78
  Table 1
  Line 1:
Date:1878, 1896
Latitude:29°52'43"N, 52'29"
Longitude:96°52'20"W, 54'03"
Mass (g):22250
Pieces:2
Class:L5
Shock stage:S4
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):24.6, 24.1
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.4, 20.5
Classifier:
Type spec mass (g):18210
Type spec location:10.96 kg, FMNH; 7.25 kg, TMM
Institutions
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FMNH: Department of Geology The Field Museum of Natural History 1400 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Nov 2011)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 78, Meteoritics 30, 792-796 (1995)
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (29° 52' 36"N, 96° 53' 12"W)
     Recommended::   (29° 52' 43"N, 96° 52' 20"W)
Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 1.4 km apart

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 316 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters)
     This is 1 of 1925 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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Synonymshelp: Bluff (From MetBase)
Fayette County (In NHM Cat)
La Grange (In NHM Cat)

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