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| Basic information | Name: Stewart Valley 003 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: StV 003 Observed fall: No Year found: 2001 Country: United States Mass:  6.8 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 6557 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 31 May 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 100:
Stewart Valley 003 (StV 003) 36°12.692’N, 116°10.071’W California, USA Found: 2001 Feb 17 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H4) Physical characteristics: The 30th find from this locality; a small, relict fusion-crusted whole individual. The rock contains abundant polysynthetically twinned low-Ca clinopyroxene grains, consistent with type 3 or 4. It has well-defined chondrules with no glassy mesostases, consistent with high-type 3 or type 4, but its fine-grained matrix is not opaque and is somewhat recrystallized, more consistent with type 4. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB100 Table 1 Line 1905: |
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| 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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Statistics: This is 1 of 269 approved meteorites from California, United States (plus 24 unapproved names) This is 1 of 1934 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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