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Steins
Basic information Name: Steins
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2005
Country: United States
Mass:help 65 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  LL4
Recommended:  LL4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 389 approved meteorites classified as LL4.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 12 Mar 2014
Data from:
  MB103
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:New Mexico
Origin or pseudonym:stranding surface
Date:2005 Mar 20
Latitude:32°15'N
Longitude:108°57'W
Mass (g):65
Pieces:1
Class:LL4
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):27.5±0.3 (n=11)
Ferrosilite (mol%):23.2±0.2 (n=6)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.4±0.3 (n=6)
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):21.7
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Verish
Finder:Michael Cottingham
Comments:found in Animas Valley, Hidalgo County, NM; 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::   (32° 15'N, 108° 57'W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 228 approved meteorites from New Mexico, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 1895 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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