Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Estación Imilac

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Estación Imilac

Basic information

Name: Estación Imilac
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2004
Country: Chile
Mass: 1908 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 451:

State/Prov/County:	Antofagasta
Origin or pseudonym:	Estación Imilac
Date:	June 2004
Latitude:	24°13'47.4"S
Longitude:	68°53'33.1"W
Mass (g):	1908
Pieces:	1
Class:	H5
Shock stage:	S4
Weathering grade:	W1
Fayalite (mol%):	18.0
Ferrosilite (mol%):	16.0
Magnetic suscept.:	5.32
Classifier:	M. Zolensky, JSC; M. Valenzuela, Chil
Type spec mass (g):	23
Type spec location:	SI
Main mass:	Rodrigo Martinez
Finder:	Rodrigo Martinez
Comments:	Submitted by P. Rochette and M. Valenzuela

Institutions
and collections

JSC: Mailcode XI, 2101 NASA Parkway, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 28 Jul 2022)
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)
Chil: Departamento de Geología Facultad de Cs. Fís. y Matem. Universidad de Chile Plaza Ercilla 803 Santiago, Chile 8370450, Chile (institutional address; updated 28 Feb 2021)

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References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)

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Geography:

Chile

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(24° 13' 47"S, 68° 53' 33"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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