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Coyote Dry Lake 319

Basic information

Name: Coyote Dry Lake 319
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: CyDL 319
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2006
Country: United States
Mass: 3.4 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 103	(2014)	H5
Recommended:			H5 [explanation]

This is 1 of 11372 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 16 Feb 2014

Writeup

Writeup from MB 103:

Coyote Dry Lake 319 (CyDL 319) 35°4.581’N, 116°45.871’W

California, USA

Found: 2006 Sep 17

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5)

History: The finder was a member of a meteorite-recovery team in 2006 when he found this meteorite on the surface of a dry lakebed in the California Mojave Desert.

Physical characteristics: Physical Characteristics: A domed-top, but flat-bottomed, button-sized, weathered fragment of a chondritic stone.

Petrography: (Alan Rubin, UCLA) The weathered stone has low shock.

Geochemistry: Fa_19.2±0.7(n=7); Fs_17.7Wo_1.9(n=9); Ca-pyx Fs_6.4Wo_45.4

Classification: Ordinary Chondrite (H5 S2 W5)

Specimens: 0.68 g type specimen at UCLA; main mass with Verish

Data from:
  MB103
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State/Prov/County:	California
Origin or pseudonym:	dry lake
Date:	2006 Sep 17
Latitude:	35°4.581'N
Longitude:	116°45.871'W
Mass (g):	3.40
Pieces:	1
Class:	H5
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	W5
Fayalite (mol%):	19.2±0.7 (n=7)
Ferrosilite (mol%):	17.7 (n=9)
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.9 (n=9)
Classifier:	A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):	0.68
Type spec location:	UCLA
Main mass:	Verish
Finder:	Dustin Stober
Comments:	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. 103, MAPS 52, 1014, May 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12888/full

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Geography:

United States

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(35° 4' 35"N, 116° 45' 52"W)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 269 approved meteorites from California, United States (plus 24 unapproved names)
This is 1 of 1919 approved meteorites from United States (plus 867 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)

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