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Yucca 028

Basic information

Name: Yucca 028
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: 0.8 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 102	(2013)	H6
Recommended:			H6 [explanation]

This is 1 of 6825 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as H6. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 14 Oct 2013

Writeup

Writeup from MB 102:

Yucca 028 34.838°N, 114.290°W

Arizona, USA

Found: 2011 Nov 24

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H6)

History: Found by Jim Wooddell on Nov. 24, 2011, while he was prospecting for meteorites.

Physical characteristics: Small, uncrusted 0.8 g stone.

Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Extensively recrystallized with rare partial chondrules and fairly abundant altered kamacite. Composed of olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, sodic plagioclase, chromite, troilite, altered kamacite, merrillite and chlorapatite.

Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa_18.0-18.1), orthopyroxene (Fs_16.1-16.2Wo_1.0-1.3), clinopyroxene (Fs_5.3-6.3Wo_46.5-45.2).

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H6).

Specimens: One 0.8 g stone (now polished for analysis) is at UWB.

Data from:
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State/Prov/County:	Arizona
Date:	2011 Nov 24
Latitude:	34.838°N
Longitude:	114.290°W
Mass (g):	0.8
Pieces:	1
Class:	H6
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	W2
Fayalite (mol%):	18.0-18.1
Ferrosilite (mol%):	16.1-16.2
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.0-1.3
Classifier:	A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS
Type spec mass (g):	0.8
Type spec location:	UWB
Main mass:	UWB
Finder:	J. Wooddell
Comments:	JW222; submitted by A. Irving

Institutions
and collections

UWS: University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, 70 Johnson Hall, Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 15 Jan 2012)
UWB: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195, United States (institutional address; updated 9 Oct 2023)

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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° 50' 17"N, 114° 17' 24"W)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 179 approved meteorites from Arizona, United States (plus 1 impact crater)
This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)

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