Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Stewart Valley 005

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Stewart Valley 005

Basic information

Name: Stewart Valley 005
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: StV 005
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2001
Country: United States
Mass: 62 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 100	(2012)	L6
Recommended:			L6 [explanation]

This is 1 of 13053 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 22 May 2012

Writeup

Writeup from MB 100:

Stewart Valley 005 (StV 005) 36°13.744’N, 116°10.761’W

Nevada, USA

Found: 2001 May 04

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6)

Physical characteristics: Type specimen is from the 205th find from this locality, and is the 3rd of more than two dozen freshly fusion-crusted, whole individual L chondrites, forming an overlapping strewn-field.

Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 1907:

State/Prov/County:	Nevada
Origin or pseudonym:	dry lake
Date:	2001 May 04
Latitude:	36°13.744'N
Longitude:	116°10.761'W
Mass (g):	62.0
Pieces:	1
Class:	L6
Shock stage:	S4
Weathering grade:	W2
Fayalite (mol%):	26.0±0.7% n=3
Classifier:	A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):	44.6
Type spec location:	UCLA
Main mass:	Verish
Finder:	R. Verish
Comments:	Field name echo; submitted by R.Verish

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. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)

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Geography:

United States

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(36° 13' 45"N, 116° 10' 46"W)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 185 approved meteorites from Nevada, United States (plus 4 unapproved names)
This is 1 of 1934 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)

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