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Tungsten Mountain 543

Basic information

Name: Tungsten Mountain 543
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: TM 543
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2007
Country: United States
Mass: 18.1 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 98	(2010)	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)

Comments:

Approved 14 Jun 2010

Data from:
  MB98
  Table 1
  Line 275:

State/Prov/County:	Churchill Co., Nevada
Date:	10-May-2007
Latitude:	39°41.363'N
Longitude:	117°37.219'W
Mass (g):	18.1
Pieces:	1
Class:	H4
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	W3
Fayalite (mol%):	18.5±0.3 n=6
Classifier:	A. E. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):	4
Type spec location:	UCLA
Main mass:	Verish
Comments:	Field ID = ECV 70510 B; 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' 13"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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