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Willcox Playa 008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Willcox Playa 008 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2006 Country: United States Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12331 approved meteorites (plus 8 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comments: | Approved 15 Feb 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 103:
Willcox Playa 008 32°5.75’N, 109°53.32’W Cochise County, Arizona, USA Found: 2006 Feb 05 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6) History: Found on intermediate shoreline on a dry lake during a meteorite-recovery team effort led by Robert Verish. Physical characteristics: A single rusty-brown, weathered stone. Petrography: (A. Rubin, UCLA) Equilibrated, groundmass contains calcite. Geochemistry: L6 W3 S2; Fa24.7±0.2, (n=8); Fs21.0Wo1.5, (n=8) Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6). Specimens: A total of 6.6 g and one polished thin section are on deposit at UCLA. The main mass is held by Verish. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB103 Table 0 Line 0: |
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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. 103, MAPS 52, 1014, May 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12888/full
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Statistics: This is 1 of 178 approved meteorites from Arizona, United States (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1894 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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