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Pampa de Mejillones 007
Basic information Name: Pampa de Mejillones 007
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: PdM 007
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2003
Country: Chile
Mass:help 1075 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12780 approved meteorites (plus 11 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 21 Nov 2011
Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 1736:
State/Prov/County:Antofagasta
Origin or pseudonym:deflation surface
Date:May 2003
Latitude:23°13'44.8"S
Longitude:70°27'20.7"W
Mass (g):1075
Pieces:5
Class:L6
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W4
Fayalite (mol%):24.8
Ferrosilite (mol%):21.2
Magnetic suscept.:4.77
Classifier:M. Zolensky M. Valenzuela
Type spec mass (g):21
Type spec location:SI
Main mass:Rodrigo Martínez
Finder:Rodrigo Martínez
Comments:field name Pampa M. Main mass in University of Chile.; submitted by P. Rochette and M. Valenzuela
Institutions
   and collections		 SI: Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-119, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Jan 2012)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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Geography:

Chile
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (23° 13' 45"S, 70° 27' 21"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 3440 approved meteorites from Antofagasta, Chile (plus 12 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 3469 approved meteorites from Chile (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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