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Basic information | Name: Buffalo Valley 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: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11238 approved meteorites (plus 22 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 12 Sep 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 102:
Buffalo Valley 40°25.318’N, 117°18.970’W Lander County, Nevada, USA Found: 2011 Dec 29 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5) History: A solitary 21.5 g stone was found on a stranding-surface by the main-mass holder while he was leading a meteorite-recovery team on a reconnaissance of an alkali-flat. Physical characteristics: Single orange-colored, round whole-stone with no fusion-crust; exterior extremely weathered but not the interior. Petrography: (A. Rubin, UCLA) The rock contains diopside, but no polysynthetically twinned Low-Ca pyroxene grains. Geochemistry: Low-Ca-pyx: Fs15.8±0.2 Wo1.1±0.2 (n=9); Ca-pyx: Fs5.8 Wo44.7 (n=1). Classification: Ordinary Chondrite (H5), shock stage (S1), weathering grade (W2) Specimens: 5.15 g type-specimen plus thin section on deposit at UCLA; Verish holds the main mass. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB102 Table 0 Line 0: |
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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. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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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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