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Tungsten Mountain 533
Basic information Name: Tungsten Mountain 533
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: TM 533
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2007
Country: United States
Mass:help 25.3 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 98  (2010)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 11568 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)
Comments: Approved 14 Jun 2010
Data from:
  MB98
  Table 1
  Line 271:
State/Prov/County:Churchill Co., Nevada
Date:9-May-2007
Latitude:39°41.367'N
Longitude:117°37.415'W
Mass (g):25.3
Pieces:1
Class:H5
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):18.6±0.2 n=7
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.4±0.2
Wollastonite (mol%):1.3 n=5
Classifier:A. E. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):7.3
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Verish
Comments:Field ID = ECV 002 diopside: Fs 6.0±0.3, Wo 45.5 n=2; submitted by Robert Verish
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)
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. 98, MAPS 45, 1530-1551 (2010)
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (39° 41' 22"N, 117° 37' 25"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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