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| Basic information | Name: Clifford This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1962 Country: United States Mass:  11.36 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12494 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) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 84:
Clifford Lincoln County , Colorado, USA Found ~ 1962 Ordinary chondrite (L6) An 11.36 kg stone was found in uncultivated rangeland by a local resident who thought it looked unusual and kept it in a rock garden. The stone was recognized as a meteorite in 1997 by Gary Curtiss. Classification and mineralogy (A. Rubin, UCLA): olivine, Fa25.2±0.3; shock stage, S3; weathering grade, W2. Specimens: main mass, Mr. Gary Curtiss, Lakewood, Colorado; type specimen, 46.6 g, UCLA; 596.5 g, NHM. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
NHM: Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom; Website (institutional address; updated 9 Dec 2011) UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 84, MAPS 35, A199-A225 (2000)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 90 approved meteorites from Colorado, United States (plus 5 unapproved names) This is 1 of 1896 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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