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Pecora Escarpment 01025
Basic information Name: Pecora Escarpment 01025
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: PCA 01025
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2002
Country: Antarctica [Collected by Planetary Studies Foundation (US)]
Mass:help 5.1 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 11567 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 9 Dec 2011
Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 1765:
Origin or pseudonym:Pecora Escarpment
Date:2002 Jan 20
Latitude:85°40.172'S
Longitude:68°30.547'W
Mass (g):5.1
Pieces:1
Class:H5
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):19.6-19.7
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.6-17.0
Wollastonite (mol%):1.5-1.1
Classifier:A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):5.1
Type spec location:FMNH
Main mass:FMNH
Finder:C. Duffy
Comments:Sparse chondrules; cpx Fs6.5-7.3Wo44.6-44.7; submitted by P. Sipiera
Institutions
   and collections		 FMNH: Department of Geology The Field Museum of Natural History 1400 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Nov 2011)
UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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Geography:

Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (85° 40' 10"S, 68° 30' 33"W)

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     This is 1 of 44543 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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