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Sunfair
Basic information Name: Sunfair
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2006
Country: United States
Mass:help 49.8 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 13171 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 12 Sep 2013
Data from:
  MB102
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:California
Origin or pseudonym:small mudflat
Date:2006 Apr 16
Latitude:34°11.313'N
Longitude:116°13.830'W
Mass (g):49.8
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):24.7±0.2 (n=7)
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):10.2
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Verish
Finder:Melanie Allum
Comments:fieldname = V-803; 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::   (34° 11' 19"N, 116° 13' 50"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 269 approved meteorites from California, United States (plus 24 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 1935 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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Synonymshelp: Sunfair 001 (First meteorite in new DCA)

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