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Emerson Dry Lake
Basic information Name: Emerson Dry Lake
     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 32 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12331 approved meteorites (plus 8 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:on margin of dry-lake
Date:2006 Apr 18
Latitude:34°26.470'N
Longitude:116°24.765'W
Mass (g):32
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):24.7±0.4 (n=5)
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.5 (n=1)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.3
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):6.9
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Verish
Finder:Robert Verish
Comments:monomict breccia, fieldname = V-801; 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° 26' 28"N, 116° 24' 46"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 269 approved meteorites from California, United States (plus 24 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 1894 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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