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Tungsten Mountain 541
Basic information Name: Tungsten Mountain 541
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: TM 541
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2007
Country: United States
Mass:help 5.7 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 98  (2010)  H3.8
Recommended:  H3.8    [explanation]

This is 1 of 78 approved meteorites classified as H3.8.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 8 Jul 2010
Data from:
  MB98
  Table 1
  Line 273:
State/Prov/County:Churchill Co., Nevada
Date:9 May 2007
Latitude:39°41.304'N
Longitude:117°37.453'W
Mass (g):5.7
Pieces:1
Class:H3.8
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):17.3±0.2, n=5
Classifier:A. E. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):1.9
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Verish
Comments:Field ID = ECV 70509 K; submitted by Greg Stanley
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)
Stanley: No contact information provided. (private address)
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' 18"N, 117° 37' 27"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 185 approved meteorites from Nevada, United States (plus 4 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 1935 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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