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Smokey Spring
Basic information Name: Smokey Spring
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: United States
Mass:help 254 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  H4
Recommended:  H4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 6426 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 9 May 2013
Data from:
  MB102
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Nevada
Origin or pseudonym:desert ridge
Date:Oct 2011
Latitude:40.95465°N
Longitude:118.49693° W
Mass (g):254
Pieces:1
Class:H4
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W4
Fayalite (mol%):18.0±0.2 (n=11)
Ferrosilite (mol%):15.9 (n=2)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.2
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):25
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Keith Semanko
Finder:G. Peppley
Comments:Found on the surface of the soil by Mr. Peppley with a metal detector while he was looking for gold.; submitted by Alan Rubin
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)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (40° 57' 17"N, 118° 29' 49"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 158 approved meteorites from Nevada, United States (plus 4 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 1895 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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