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Buffalo Valley

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: 21.5 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 102	(2013)	H5
Recommended:			H5 [explanation]

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

Writeup

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: Fs_15.8±0.2Wo_1.1±0.2(n=9); Ca-pyx: Fs_5.8Wo_44.7(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
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State/Prov/County:	Nevada
Origin or pseudonym:	alkali lake
Date:	2011 Dec 29
Latitude:	40°25.318'N
Longitude:	117°18.970'W
Mass (g):	21.5
Pieces:	1
Class:	H5
Shock stage:	S1
Weathering grade:	W2
Fayalite (mol%):	17.6±0.1 (n=14)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	15.8±0.2 (n=9)
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.1±0.2
Classifier:	A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):	4.3
Type spec location:	UCLA
Main mass:	Verish
Finder:	Verish
Comments:	BVLY-RSV; submitted by 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. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015

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Geography:

United States

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(40° 25' 19"N, 117° 18' 58"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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